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The Soviet Union Quiz - Multiple Choice

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1. Who was the first Soviet leader ?
Vladimir Lenin
Yuri Andropov
Joseph Stalin
Leonid Brezhnev
2. What was the capital of Soviet Union ?
Novgorod
Moscow
Stalingrad
Leningrad
3. What was the name of the forced labour camps (or more accurately the government agency which was in charge of them) in the Soviet Union?
Gulag
Samovar
Solyanka
Golubtsy
4. What was the name of the collective farms in the Soviet Union ?
Koshka
Kolkhoz
Vatrushka
Sobaka
5. What was the national anthem of the Soviet Union ?
"The Internationale"
"The Nationale"
"The Communism"
"The Socialism"
6. Soviet Union hosted the Summer Olympics in.... ?
1952
1972
1960
1980
7. What was the name of Saint Petersburg during most of the Soviet Union?
Petrograd
Leningrad
Petroskoi
Stalingrad
8. What was the secret police of Soviet Union called?
KGB
DDR
CCP
CIA
9. Whose mausoleum is in the Red Square ?
Brezhnev's
Stalin's
Gorbachev's
Lenin's
10. What is the most famous thing on display in that mausoleum ?
Karl Marx's original, hand-written copy of "Capital"
The Communist Manifesto
His preserved body
The crown jewels of the last Tsar of Russia
11. What was the currency of the Soviet Union ?
Soviet dinar
Soviet dollar
Soviet złoty
Soviet ruble
12. In which modern day country is Chernobyl, the site of the 1986 nuclear power plant disaster / accident ?
Ukraine
Russia
Afghanistan
Kazakhstan
13. Who was the longest serving Soviet leader ?
Josef Stalin
Boris Yeltsin
Vladimir Lenin
Nikita Khrushchev
14. How long was that longest serving Soviet leader in power ?
35 years
19 years
41 years
29 years
15. Soviet Union was at war from December 1979 to February 1989 with... ?
Kazakhstan
Afghanistan
Finland
Ukraine
16. Who was the first man in outer space ?
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Yuri Gagarin
Ivan Pavlov
Nikolai Gogol
17. What was his capsule called ?
Sputnik 1
Pirog 1
Vostok 1
Mir 1
18. What would they call their Soviet space travellers ?
Astronauts
Lunauts
Cosmonaut
Communaut
19. When did the Soviet Union finally dissolve ?
1991
1981
1996
1986
20. Who was the last Soviet leader ?
Boris Yeltsin
Rudolf Nureyev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Vladimir Nabokov
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