QUESTION 1 When did the Soviet Union host the Summer Olympic Games? 1972 1976 19

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QUESTION 1

When did the Soviet Union host the Summer Olympic Games?

1972

1976

1980

1992

QUESTION 2

After the Revolution of 1917, the Soviet Union did not participate in the Olympic Games until...

1952

1968

1956

1964

QUESTION 3

Homosexuality and homosexual conduct have been illegal in Russia since June 2013.

True

False

QUESTION 4

Which Soviet leader issued a decree on "Measures to Overcome Drunkennes and Alcoholism" (basically, starting prohibition in the USSR)?

Iosif Stlain

Vladimir Putin

Leonid Brezhnev

Mikhail Gorbachev

QUESTION 5

Since 2015, U.S. citizens can no longer adopt Russian children.

True

False

QUESTION 6

With Putin's government having spend close to $40 billion, Sochi Olympics is the most expensive Olympics in history.

True

False

QUESTION 7

Is the following chronology of Russian / Soviet attitudes and laws with regard to homosexuality true or false?

Historically, in tsarist Russia, homosexuality (especially male) was considered a crime on religious grounds. When bolsheviks came to power in 1917, homosexuality was completely de-criminalized, however, in the 1930s Joseph Stalin made homosexuality a crime again. It was not until 1993 (two years after the collapse of the Soviet Union) that homosexuality was de-criminalized again.

True

False

QUESTION 8

The Olympic Games of the modern era were revived in...

Athens in 1896

Stockholm 1892

London 1908

Paris in 1900

QUESTION 9

The most expensive construction project of the Sochi Olympics was...

A new highway and a railroad connecting the coastal area to the village of Krasnaya Polyana in the mountains 30 miles away

the Bolshoi Ice Palace, the hockey arena shaped like a frozen droplet of water

The Iceberg, the figure skating palace

The Fisht stadium - the site of the opening and closing ceremonies (and where matches of the 2018 World Cup will be held)

QUESTION 10

Pre-Soviet (i.e. tsarist Russia) was a founding member of the Olympic organization.

True

False

QUESTION 11

According to statistics cited in David Stone's article, the majority (at least 60%) of Russians have a very strong presence of religion in their daily lives.

True

False

Explanation / Answer

1. 1980

The Soviet Union hosted the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.

2. 1952

Due to World War II, the Soviet Union did not join the Olympic Games until 1952.

3. TRUE

The controversy was sparked by a new Russian law. In June 2013, the Duma (Russia’s legislature) passed a bill subsequently signed into law by President Vladimir Putin that banned the promotion of “non-traditional sexual relations.” While the law did not specify homosexuality, and might equally apply to, say, polygamy, Russian debate about the law made it clear that the primary focus of the legislation was homosexuality.

4. Mikhail Gorbachev

In response, the Politburo and the Central Committee passed resolutions entitled “Measures to Overcome Drunkenness and Alcoholism” in May of 1985 (shortly after Mikhail Gorbachev became Secretary General).

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