T99 FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE QUIZ

[magpie in the 80's]

1 Who was elected President of Russia in June 1991?
BORIS YELTSIN
2 Domodedovo and Bikovo are both the names of what in Moscow?
AIRPORTS
3 What is the Russian word for citadel?
KREMLIN
4 Who did Geoffrey Robinson describe as, “the Rasputin of New Labour”?
PETER MANDELSON
5 Who refused the Nobel Prize for Literature for Dr Zhivago?
BORIS PASTERNAK
6 Who did Konstantin Chernenko succeed as Soviet leader?
YURI ANDROPOV
7 What is a samovar?
A RUSSIAN TEA URN
8 What is the four letter name for the Russian parliament?
DUMA
9 Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990?
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
10 If Bolshevik means majority, what word means minority?
MENSHEVIK
11 Which lake is known as, the Blue Eye of Siberia?
LAKE BAIKAL
12 The Sabre Dance is the most famous work of which Russian composer?
ARAM KHACHATURIAN
13 After Moscow, what is the most populous city in Russia?
ST. PETERSBURG
14 Which was the first Russian act to top the UK singles charts?
TATU
15 What gives the Russian soup borscht its reddish colour?
BEETROOT
16 Who was voted Sexiest Woman in the World by FHM readers in 2003?
ANNA KOURNIKOVA
17 Which country shares a 1340km land border with Russia?
FINLAND
18 What is the unit of currency in Russia?
ROUBLE
19 Which 1985 hit for Elton John was written by Elton following a trip to Russia?
NIKITA
20 How does the word glasnost translate into English?
OPENNESS
21 Which Russian wrote the controversial novel Lolita?
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
22 Which word of Russian origin is a shortened version of Glavnoe Uperavlenie Lagerei?
GULAG
23 The name for which Russian spacecrafts translate to English as fellow traveller?
SPUTNIK
24 Which word of Russian origin relating to economic reform means restructuring?
PERESTAOIKA
25 By what three letters was the Committee of the State Security Police of the Soviet Union better known?
KGB

[redandblack]

15 Beetroot

[magpie in the 80's]

15 Beetroot

CORRECT RAB

[Kahuna]

2/ Airports
3/ Kremlin
5/ Boris Pasternak
7/ A tea service thingy
9/ Gorbachev
18/Rouble
19/ Nikita
20/ Openness
23/ Sputnik
24/ Perestroika
25/ KGB

[magpie in the 80's]

2/ Airports
3/ Kremlin
5/ Boris Pasternak
7/ A tea service thingy
9/ Gorbachev
18/Rouble
19/ Nikita
20/ Openness
23/ Sputnik
24/ Perestroika
25/ KGB

ALL CORRECT K

[JAS]

Q1 Boris Yeltsin
Q8 Duma
Q13 St Petersberg
Q17 China
Q22 GULag

Regards
JAS

[magpie in the 80's]

Q1 Boris Yeltsin
Q8 Duma
Q13 St Petersberg
Q17 China...............INCORRECT
Q22 GULag

Regards
JAS

ALL OTHERS CORRECT JAS

[JAS]

Q17 Mongolia

Regards
JAS

[magpie in the 80's]

Q17 Mongolia

Regards
JAS

INCORRECT JAS

[magpie in the 80's]

STILL 9Q TO ANSWER HERE

[Kahuna]

16/ Anna Kournikova

[magpie in the 80's]

16/ Anna Kournikova

CORRECT K

[Turkeywizz]

12 Khachaturian
17 Ukraine?
21 Nabokov?

[magpie in the 80's]

12 Khachaturian
17 Ukraine?................INCORRECT
21 Nabokov?

OTHER 2 CORRECT TW

[magpie in the 80's]

just 6 Q's to answer here

[magpie in the 80's]

1 Who was elected President of Russia in June 1991?
BORIS YELTSIN
2 Domodedovo and Bikovo are both the names of what in Moscow?
AIRPORTS
3 What is the Russian word for citadel?
KREMLIN
4 Who did Geoffrey Robinson describe as, “the Rasputin of New Labour”?
PETER MANDELSON
5 Who refused the Nobel Prize for Literature for Dr Zhivago?
BORIS PASTERNAK
6 Who did Konstantin Chernenko succeed as Soviet leader?
YURI ANDROPOV
7 What is a samovar?
A RUSSIAN TEA URN
8 What is the four letter name for the Russian parliament?
DUMA
9 Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990?
MIKHAIL GORBACHEV
10 If Bolshevik means majority, what word means minority?
MENSHEVIK
11 Which lake is known as, the Blue Eye of Siberia?
LAKE BAIKAL
12 The Sabre Dance is the most famous work of which Russian composer?
ARAM KHACHATURIAN
13 After Moscow, what is the most populous city in Russia?
ST. PETERSBURG
14 Which was the first Russian act to top the UK singles charts?
TATU
15 What gives the Russian soup borscht its reddish colour?
BEETROOT
16 Who was voted Sexiest Woman in the World by FHM readers in 2003?
ANNA KOURNIKOVA
17 Which country shares a 1340km land border with Russia?
FINLAND
18 What is the unit of currency in Russia?
ROUBLE
19 Which 1985 hit for Elton John was written by Elton following a trip to Russia?
NIKITA
20 How does the word glasnost translate into English?
OPENNESS
21 Which Russian wrote the controversial novel Lolita?
VLADIMIR NABOKOV
22 Which word of Russian origin is a shortened version of Glavnoe Uperavlenie Lagerei?
GULAG
23 The name for which Russian spacecrafts translate to English as fellow traveller?
SPUTNIK
24 Which word of Russian origin relating to economic reform means restructuring?
PERESTAOIKA
25 By what three letters was the Committee of the State Security Police of the Soviet Union better known?
KGB

QUESTIONS ANSWERED ARE IN RED.
QUESTIONS UNANSWERED ARE IN BLUE.

END OF QUIZ