1. When did Ukraine declare independence?
a) 7 March 1984
b) 11 April 1976
c) 24 August 1991
d) 14 November 1975
2. Which of the following countries is not to the west of Ukraine?
a) Slovakia
b) Hungary
c) Poland
d) Russia
3. Which is the longest mountain in Ukraine?
a) Danube
b) Donets
c) Dnieper
d) Dniester
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
1) When was Yuri Andropov born?
a) 31 January 1901
b) 15 June 1914
c) 14 August 1912
d) 21 December 1916
2) Where was Yuri Andropov born?
a) Talinn
b) Nagutskoye
c) Helsinki
d) Warsaw
3) On which river did Yuri Andropov work as a boatman?
a) Thames
b) Danube
c) Rhine
d) Volga
Vyacheslav Molotov was a Soviet politician and diplomat.
1. What was Vyacheslav Molotov’s original surname?
a) Ulyanov
b) Skryabin
c) Safin
d) Bulganin
2. When was Vyacheslav Molotov born? (Date of birth according to calendar prevalent in Russia.)
a) 25 February 1890
b) 19 April 1898
c) 12 July 1900
d) 3 December 1894
3. Where was Vyacheslav Molotov born?
a) Omsk
b) Tyumen
c) Kukarka
d) Baku
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
Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky was a Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher. Dostoyevsky’s literary works explore human psychology in the context of the troubled political, social, and spiritual atmosphere of 19th-century Russia. He began writing in his 20s, and his first novel, Poor Folk, was published in when he was 25. His major works include Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov. His output consists of eleven novels, three novellas, seventeen short novels and numerous other works. Many literary critics rate him as one of the greatest and most prominent psychologists in world literature. His novella Notes From Underground is considered to be one of the first works of existentialist literature. – Wikipedia
(Dates are as per Gregorian calendar. Dostoevsky is also written as Dostoyevsky.)
1. When was Fyodor Dostoevsky born?
a) 28 January 1824
b) 15 May 1823
c) 23 August 1822
d) 11 November 1821
2. Where was Fyodor Dostoevsky born?
a) Sorochinsty
b) Moscow
c) Kiev
d) Poltova
3. When did Fyodor Dostoevsky write Poor Folk?
a) 1846
b) 1848
c) 1850
d) 1852
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