1. When did Boris Yeltsin president of Russia?
a) 1964-1982
b) 1990-1999
c) 1982-1984
d) 2004-2008
2. When was Boris Yeltsin born?
a) 1 February 1931
b) 18 April 1926
c) 23 August 1929
d) 30 November 1925
3. Where was Boris Yeltsin born?
a) Minsk
b) Tashkent
c) Sverdlovsk
d) Dushanbe
Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva was the youngest child and only daughter of Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Stalin’s second wife. In 1967, she caused an international furor when she defected and became a naturalized citizen of the United States until 1984 when she returned to the Soviet Union and had her Soviet citizenship returned….
1. When was Francis Galton born?
a) 16 February 1822
b) 14 May 1832
c) 21 August 1836
d) 30 December 1825
2. Where was Francis Galton born?
a) Giessen
b) Birmingham
c) Windhoek
d) Cairo
3. Which scientist was Francis Galton’s cousin?
a) Erasmus Darwin
b) Karl Pearson
c) William Hopkins
d) Charles Darwin
1) When was Leonid Brezhnev born?
a) 14 March 1896
b) 18 May 1894
c) 28 August 1902
d) 19 December 1906
2) Where was Leonid Brezhnev born?
a) Yekatinburgh
b) Kamenskoye
c) Vladivostok
d) Dushanbe
3) Which campaign did Leonid Brezhnev implement in Kazhakstan in 1954?
a) Campaign against hunger and disease
b) Virgin and Idle Lands Campaign
c) Cleanliness campaign
d) Fisheries campaign
1. When was Rudolf Abel arrested by FBI?
a) 1 January 1949
b) 21 June 1957
c) 12 August 1956
d) 31 December 1948
2. What was Rudolf Abel’s original name?
a) William August Fisher
b) Ernest Blofeld
c) Feliks Dzerzhinnsky
d) Nikolay Yezhov
3. When was Rudolf Abel born?
a) 3 March 1904
b) 15 April 1902
c) 11 July 1903
d) 14 November 1905
1. When was Leon Trotsky born?
a) 7 March 1875
b) 9 June 1884
c) 22 July 1885
d) 7 November 1879
2. Where was Leon Trotsky born?
a) Karelia
b) Novgorod
c) Yanovka
d) Tomsk
3. What was Leon Trotsky’s original name?
a) Lev Tolstoy
b) Nikolai Bukharin
c) Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov
d) Lev Davidovich Bronshtein
1. When did Andrey Sakharov get Nobel Prize for Peace?
a) 1946
b) 1957
c) 1975
d) 1979
2. When was Andrey Sakharov born?
a) 12 March 1919
b) 21 May 1921
c) 29 July 1912
d) 18 November 1922
3. Where was Andrey Sakharov born?
a) Moscow
b) Tomsk
c) Volgograd
d) Astana
1) Who succeeded Boris Yeltsin as President of Russia?
a) Alexander Lebed
b) Vladimir Putin
c) Gary Kasparov
d) Mikhail Gorbachev
2) When was Moscow Olympics held?
a) 1964
b) 1980
c) 1996
d) 2004
3) Which city is considered Third Rome?
a) St. Petersburg
b) Moscow
c) Kiev
d) Yekatinburg
4) Who is the first woman in space?
a) Sunita Williams
b) Kalpana Chawla
c) Valentina Tereshkova
d) Nadia Petrova
1) When was Konstantin Chernenko born?
a) 22 January 1909
b) 19 May 1912
c) 24 September 1911
d) 14 November 1918
2) Where was Konstantin Chernenko born?
a) Bolshaya Tes
b) Nagutskoye
c) Dushanbe
d) Tashkent
3) When did Konstantin Chernenko join the Communist Party?
a) 1921
b) 1925
c) 1931
d) 1945
1) When did Yuri Gagarin orbit the earth?
a) 5 October 1957
b) 6 June 1959
c) 4 November 1960
d) 12 April 1961
2) Which spacecraft was used by Yuri Gagarin to orbit the earth?
a) Luna 7
b) Luna 8
c) Vostok 1
d) Vostok 2
3) From where did the spacecraft carrying Yuri Gagarin take off?
a) Moscow
b) Leningrad
c) Vladivostok
d) Baikanour