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The Soviet Union Quiz - Multiple Choice

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