1) Catherine the Great of Russia was so outraged to discover the presence of dandruff on her collar that she imprisoned her hairdresser in an iron cage for three years to stop the news spreading. a) True b) False 2) When Russian ruler Peter the Great discovered that his wife Catherine had been unfaithful, he had the head of her lover, William Morris, chopped off and placed in a large jar of alcohol. Peter insisted that the jar remain on Catherine’s bedside table to remind her of her adultery. a) True b) False 3) King Vlad II of Kiev once insisted that all of his servants work naked so that they could not conceal any weapons, even in the depths of winter. a) True b) False 4) Russia is the largest country in the world, stretching over an area of 17.1 million square kilometer. a) True b) False 5) Having fallen out with the Archbishop of Novgorod, Ivan the Terrible arranged for the cleric to be sewn into a bearskin and hunted down by a pack of hounds. a) True b) False 6) It once snowed in Moscow for 324 days in a row. a) True b) False 7) The national animal of Russia is an octopus. a) True b) False 8) Vodka is made from potatoes. a) True b) False 9) Ivan the Terrible died playing chess. a) True b) False 10) Russia houses more than 100 different ethnic groups, representing a multiplicity of national histories and cultures and distinct language groups, including Indo-European Slavic, Turkic, Finno-Ugric and others. a) True b) False 11) Russia boasts the oldest mountains in the world, and the world’s deepest lake and the largest reservoir of fresh water on earth. But what are they called? a) The Andes Mountains and Lake Schvonkin b) The Ural Mountains and Lake Baikal c) The Siberian Mountains and Lake Caspian 12) What is the name of the Russian river that shares it's name with a river that flows through Sheffield? a) The Don b) The Sheaf c) The Rivelin 13) Who was the last Czar of Russia? a) Ivan IV b) Nicholas II c) Nicholas III 14) The word Czar means 'Ceasar' in Russian. a) True b) False 15) Burping after a meal in Russia is a sign of appreciation of the food. a) True b) False 16) The name vodka comes from the Russian word for water: voda. a) True b) False 17) Russia is famous for it's caviar, but what is caviar? a) Salted,non-fertilised seeds b) Salted, non-fertilised fish eggs. c) Salted, non-fertilised frog spawn. 18) Catherine the First of Russia, made a rule that no man was allowed to get drunk at one of her parties before nine o'clock. a) True b) False 19) The Russian mystic, Rasputin, was the victim of a series of murder attempts on this day in 1916. The assassins poisoned, shot and stabbed him in quick succession, but they found they were unable to finish him off. Rasputin finally succumbed to the ice-cold waters of a river. a) True b) False 20) Everyone in Russia wears a silly hat. a) True b) False

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