From Russia with Love

1 Who was elected President of Russia in June 1991?

2 Domodedovo and Bikovo are both the names of what in Moscow?

3 What is the Russian word for citadel?

4 Who did Geoffrey Robinson describe as, “the Rasputin of New Labour”?

5 Who refused the Nobel Prize for Literature for Dr Zhivago?

6 Who did Konstantin Chernenko succeed as Soviet leader?

7 What is a samovar?

8 What is the four letter name for the Russian parliament?

9 Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1990?

10 If Bolshevik means majority, what word means minority?

11 Which lake is known as, the Blue Eye of Siberia?

12 The Sabre Dance is the most famous work of which Russian composer?

13 After Moscow, what is the most populous city in Russia?

14 Which was the first Russian act to top the UK singles charts?

15 What gives the Russian soup borscht its reddish colour?

16 Who was voted Sexiest Woman in the World by FHM readers in 2003?

17 Which country shares a 1340km land border with Russia?

18 What is the unit of currency in Russia?

19 Which 1985 hit for Elton John was written by Elton following a trip to Russia?

20 How does the word glasnost translate into English?

21 Which Russian wrote the controversial novel Lolita?

22 Which word of Russian origin is a shortened version of Glavnoe Uperavlenie Lagerei?

23 The name for which Russian spacecrafts translate to English as fellow traveller?

24 Which word of Russian origin relating to economic reform means restructuring?

25 By what three letters was the Committee of the State Security Police of the Soviet Union better known?

Answers

1 Boris Yeltsin
2 Airports
3 Kremlin
4 Peter Mandelson
5 Boris Pasternak
6 Yuri Andropov
7 A Russian tea urn
8 Duma
9 Mikhail Gorbachev
10 Menshevik
11 Lake Baikal
12 Aram Khachaturian
13 St Petersburg
14 Tatu
15 Beetroot
16 Anna Kournikova
17 Finland
18 Rouble
19 Nikita
20 Openness
21 Vladimir Nabokov
22 Gulag
23 Sputnik
24 Perestroika
25 KGB