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Nikolai Podgorny
Nikolai Podgorny
  • 1. In which year was Nikolai Podgorny born?
A) 1920
B) 1945
C) 1968
D) 1903
  • 2. Which position did Nikolai Podgorny hold in the Soviet Union?
A) Defense Minister
B) Chairman of the Presidium
C) Prime Minister
D) Foreign Minister
  • 3. When did Nikolai Podgorny serve as Chairman of the Presidium?
A) 1950-1960
B) 1965-1977
C) 1980-1990
D) 1995-2005
  • 4. Which Soviet leader did Nikolai Podgorny have a power struggle with?
A) Leonid Brezhnev
B) Vladimir Lenin
C) Joseph Stalin
D) Mikhail Gorbachev
  • 5. What was Nikolai Podgorny's primary career before entering politics?
A) Engineer
B) Journalist
C) Farmer
D) Actor
  • 6. What did Nikolai Podgorny receive in 1973 for his diplomatic efforts?
A) Nobel Peace Prize
B) Medal of Honor
C) Oscar Award
D) Lenin Peace Prize
  • 7. What year did Nikolai Podgorny leave his position as Chairman of the Presidium?
A) 1960
B) 1985
C) 1992
D) 1977
  • 8. In which year did Nikolai Podgorny pass away?
A) 1975
B) 2000
C) 1983
D) 1990
  • 9. In which city did Nikolai Podgorny spend most of his career in the Soviet government?
A) Minsk
B) Kiev
C) Moscow
D) St. Petersburg
  • 10. Which country did Nikolai Podgorny visit frequently during his tenure?
A) Vietnam
B) United States
C) Yugoslavia
D) China
  • 11. Which political party did Nikolai Podgorny belong to?
A) Socialist Revolutionary Party
B) Liberal Democratic Party of Russia
C) United Russia
D) Communist Party of the Soviet Union
  • 12. In which city was Nikolai Podgorny born?
A) Karlovka, Russian Empire (now Ukraine)
B) St. Petersburg, Russia
C) Moscow, Russia
D) Kiev, Ukraine
  • 13. Which Soviet leader did Podgorny speak to after Brezhnev and Kosygin at the Kremlin event?
A) Andrei Gromyko
B) Nikita Khrushchev
C) Mikhail Suslov
D) Leonid Brezhnev
  • 14. In what year did Podgorny become a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union?
A) 1926
B) 1964
C) 1930
D) 1945
  • 15. What was Podgorny's role in the Soviet Union after his removal from leadership?
A) He was forced to resign from active politics and sidelined until his death.
B) He led a new political faction.
C) He continued as Chairman of the Presidium in a ceremonial role.
D) He became an advisor to Brezhnev.
  • 16. Who visited Canada in 1971 while Podgorny was on his state visits?
A) Leonid Brezhnev.
B) Brezhnev.
C) Kosygin.
D) Anwar Sadat.
  • 17. Who was unanimously approved as First Deputy Chairman of the Presidium?
A) Grigory Romanov
B) Alexei Kosygin
C) Nikolai Podgorny
D) Vasili Kuznetsov
  • 18. Who proposed the removal of Podgorny from the Politburo?
A) Leonid Brezhnev
B) Alexei Kosygin
C) Vasili Kuznetsov
D) Grigory Romanov
  • 19. How old was Vasili Kuznetsov when he was appointed First Deputy Chairman?
A) 76
B) 65
C) 80
D) 70
  • 20. Which country did NOT award Nikolai Podgorny a foreign state prize?
A) Bangladesh
B) Mongolian People's Republic
C) Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
D) The United States
  • 21. Who was considered the second most powerful man in the Soviet Union before Podgorny's removal?
A) Nikolai Podgorny
B) Grigory Romanov
C) Alexei Kosygin
D) Leonid Brezhnev
  • 22. Which of these countries awarded Nikolai Podgorny foreign state prizes?
A) United States
B) Japan
C) Germany
D) Finland
  • 23. What did Mikhail Suslov call Podgorny's views?
A) Progressive
B) Revisionist
C) Liberal-minded
D) Conservative
  • 24. How many votes could Brezhnev count on to remove Podgorny at the 1970 Central Committee plenum?
A) Twelve.
B) Five.
C) Seven.
D) Ten.
  • 25. Why did Podgorny briefly fall out of favor with Khrushchev in 1961?
A) He criticized Khrushchev's foreign policy.
B) He opposed Khrushchev's agricultural policies.
C) He supported the Prague Spring crisis.
D) He blamed bad corn yields on 'bad weather' while Khrushchev claimed they had been 'stolen' and 'pilfered'.
  • 26. What intelligence report did Nikolai Podgorny deliver to Egyptian Vice President Anwar Sadat in 1967?
A) A warning about a potential attack from Syria.
B) Information on Soviet troop deployments in Egypt.
C) An accurate assessment of military movements by Israel.
D) A false claim that Israeli troops were massing along the Syrian border.
  • 27. Which institution did Podgorny graduate from in 1926?
A) Moscow State University
B) A local worker's school
C) Kiev Technological Institute of Food Industry
D) Leningrad Polytechnic Institute
  • 28. How long after his removal from the Politburo did Podgorny lose his Chairmanship of the Presidium?
A) Fifteen days
B) Forty days
C) Thirty days
D) Twenty-three days
  • 29. What role did Nikolai Podgorny hold before becoming the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet?
A) Chairman of the Secretariat
B) Party's Second Secretary
C) First Secretary
D) KGB chairman
  • 30. What was the cause of Nikolai Podgorny's death?
A) Heart attack
B) Stroke
C) Old age
D) Cancer
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