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Nikita Khrushchev Quiz

History, Russia, USSR

Nikita Khrushchev Quiz Questions

1) When was Nikita Khrushchev born?
a) 22 February 1876
b) 17 April 1894
c) 21 July 1896
d) 31 December 1900

2) Where was Nikita Khrushchev born?
a) Tbilisi
b) Kalinovka
c) Bratislava
d) Prague

3) Which party did Nikita Khrushchev join?
a) Menshevik Party
b) Liberal Party
c) Russian Communist Party
d) Royalist Party

4) What did Nikita Khrushchev study at Stalin Industrial Academy?
a) Astronomy
b) Painting
c) Metallurgy
d) Theosophy

5) When did Nikita Khrushchev receive Order of Lenin?
a) 1917
b) 1922
c) 1635
d) 1648

6) What was Nikita Khrushchev’s rank in Soviet Army in World War II?
a) Admiral
b) Squadron Leader
c) Wing Commander
d) Lieutenant General

7) When did Nikita Khrushchev make the speech to 20th Party Congress in Moscow denouncing Joseph Stalin’s crimes?
a) 25 February 1956
b) 3 June 1953
c) 14 September 1949
d) 9 November 1945

8) When was the Cuban missile crisis?
a) 1953
b) 1958
c) 1962
d) 1968

9) When did Nikita Khrushchev die?
a) 27 March 1964
b) 30 June 1975
c) 11 September 1971
d) 8 December 1982

10) Where did Nikita Khrushchev die?
a) St. Petersburg
b) Moscow
c) Vladivostock
d) Warsaw

Nikita Khrushchev Quiz Questions with Answers

1) When was Nikita Khrushchev born?
b) 17 April 1894

2) Where was Nikita Khrushchev born?
b) Kalinovka

3) Which party did Nikita Khrushchev join?
c) Russian Communist Party

4) What did Nikita Khrushchev study at Stalin Industrial Academy?
c) Metallurgy

5) When did Nikita Khrushchev receive Order of Lenin?
c) 1635

6) What was Nikita Khrushchev’s rank in Soviet Army in World War II?
d) Lieutenant General

7) When did Nikita Khrushchev make the speech to 20th Party Congress in Moscow denouncing Joseph Stalin’s crimes?
a) 25 February 1956

8) When was the Cuban missile crisis?
c) 1962

9) When did Nikita Khrushchev die?
c) 11 September 1971

10) Where did Nikita Khrushchev die?
b) Moscow

Originally posted 2017-02-24 22:33:00.

Boris Yeltsin Quiz

Russia, USSR

Boris Yeltsin Quiz Questions

Boris Yeltsin

Boris Yeltsin (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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

4. Who appointed Boris Yeltsin mayor of Moscow?
a) Yuri Andropov
b) Viktor Chernomyrdin
c) Alexander Lebed
d) Mikhail Gorbachev

5. What made Boris Yeltsin most powerful in USSR in August 1991?
a) Sending a satellite in space
b) Defying coup leaders
c) Becoming leader of Communist Party
d) Winning presidential election

6. What did Boris Yeltsin together with presidents of Byelorussia and Ukraine establish in December 1991?
a) Commonwealth of Independent States
b) Warsaw Pact
c) European Union
d) Baghdad Pact

7. When did USSR come to an end?
a) 31 January 1989
b) 23 May 2000
c) 7 July 1995
d) 25 December 1991

8. Where did Boris Yeltsin send troops in December 1994?
a) Afghanistan
b) Czechoslovakia
c) Chechnya
d) Hungary

9. When did Boris Yeltsin die?
a) 26 March 1999
b) 23 April 2007
c) 11 September 2008
d) 18 October 2010

10. Where did Boris Yeltsin die?
a) St. Petersburg
b) Irkutsk
c) Kaliningrad
d) Moscow

Boris Yeltsin Quiz Questions and Answers

Boris Yeltsin

Boris Yeltsin speaking at a meeting of his supporters. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

1. When did Boris Yeltsin president of Russia?
b) 1990-1999

2. When was Boris Yeltsin born?
a) 1 February 1931

3. Where was Boris Yeltsin born?
c) Sverdlovsk

4. Who appointed Boris Yeltsin mayor of Moscow?
d) Mikhail Gorbachev

5. What made Boris Yeltsin most powerful in USSR in August 1991?
b) Defying coup leaders

6. What did Boris Yeltsin together with presidents of Byelorussia and Ukraine establish in December 1991?
a) Commonwealth of Independent States

7. When did USSR come to an end?
d) 25 December 1991

8. Where did Boris Yeltsin send troops in December 1994?
c) Chechnya

9. When did Boris Yeltsin die?
b) 23 April 2007

10. Where did Boris Yeltsin die?
d) Moscow

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Originally posted 2016-07-01 21:58:55.

Svetlana Alliluyeva Quiz

Russia, USSR
Joseph Stalin with daughter Svetlana, 1935.

Joseph Stalin with daughter Svetlana, 1935. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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. She later went back to the United States and also spent time in the United Kingdom. – Wikipedia

Svetlana Alliluyeva Quiz Questions

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1. What was Svetlana Alliluyeva’s original name?
a) Galina Ulanova
b) Svetlana Iosifovna Stalina
c) Nadezhda Konstantina Krupskaya
d) Fanny Kaplan

2. When was Svetlana Alliluyeva born?
a) 28 February 1926
b) 16 May 1922
c) 14 August 1928
d) 21 December 1924

3. Where was Svetlana Alliluyeva born?
a) St. Petersburg
b) Yekaterinburg
c) Moscow
d) Tashkent

4. Which university did Svetlana Alliluyeva attend?
a) Kazan
b) Gorky
c) Pushkin
d) Moscow

5. When did Svetlana Alliluyeva teach at Moscow University?
a) 1936-1945
b) 1953-1965
c) 1946-1952
d) 1966-1967

6. Whose ashes did Svetlana Alliluyeva bring to India?
a) Lal Bahadur Shastri
b) Vijayalaxmi Pandit
c) Trilok Nath Kaul
d) Brajesh Singh

7. Who was the American ambassador in Delhi who issued visa to Svetlana Alliluyeva?
a) Chester Bowles
b) William Bullitt
c) Daniel Patrick Moynihan
d) Robert Blackwill

8. What name did Svetlana Alliluyeva take after she married William Peters?
a) Svetlana Isinbayeva
b) Janet Peters
c) Lana Peters
d) Stephanie Peters

9. When did Svetlana Alliluyeva publish The Faraway Music?
a) 1967
b) 1984
c) 1969
d) 1986

10. When did Svetlana Alliluyeva die?
a) 1 January 2001
b) 6 June 2006
c) 7 July 2007
d) 22 November 2011

Svetlana Alliluyeva Quiz Questions with Answers

1. What was Svetlana Alliluyeva’s original name?
b) Svetlana Iosifovna Stalina

2. When was Svetlana Alliluyeva born?
a) 28 February 1926

3. Where was Svetlana Alliluyeva born?
c) Moscow

4. Which university did Svetlana Alliluyeva attend?
d) Moscow

5. When did Svetlana Alliluyeva teach at Moscow University?
b) 1953-1965

6. Whose ashes did Svetlana Alliluyeva bring to India?
d) Brajesh Singh

7. Who was the American ambassador in Delhi who issued visa to Svetlana Alliluyeva?
a) Chester Bowles

8. What name did Svetlana Alliluyeva take after she married William Peters?
c) Lana Peters

9. When did Svetlana Alliluyeva publish The Faraway Music?
b) 1984

10. When did Svetlana Alliluyeva die?
d) 22 November 2011

Originally posted 2016-07-01 21:58:46.