Ready for the Russian challenge?

What is the capital of Russia?

Which river runs through Moscow?

What would you do with a balalaika?

Where is the deepest hole on earth?

What is an ushanka?

What does Привет mean?

Which is the largest freshwater lake in the world?

What is the name of Moscow’s famous park?

What is the name given to natives of Moscow?

What happens when the clock strikes the hour at the puppet theatre?

Which board game is played in Gorky park?

What is the main ingredient of borscht?

What is the Kremlin?

In which palace does the president live?

Who commissioned the building of St Basil’s Cathedral?

What colour did the Kremlin walls used to be?

Which Tsar put a tax on beards?

Where can you find Lenin’s tomb?

What was the name of the Romanovs’ residence in St Petersburg?

What are Matryoshka dolls?

What is strange about the salt mines at Yekaterinburg?

Where might you find these woolly beasts in the not-too-distant future?

Which are the world’s most expensive Easter eggs?

What happened at the Church of the Saviour on Spilled Blood?

Where can you find the world’s tallest natural fountain?

What’s special about St Petersburg’s metro?

What is the name of this Russian favourite?

Which of these alcoholic drinks was invented in Russia?