Question: What would have led to the starvation of 80 million people in the Soviet Union?
Answer: The Nazi Hunger Plan and Generalplan Ost

Question: The Nazi Hunger Plan and Generalplan Ost resulted in the death and imprisonment of how many people?
Answer: 19.3 million civilians

Question: What is the German word for living space?
Answer: Lebensraum

Question: The first half of the 20th century was marked by what in Russia and the Soviet Union?
Answer: succession of wars, famines and other disasters

Question: Who estimated the Russian population was 90 million fewer than it could have been in 1945?
Answer: Stephen J. Lee

Question: When was the Russian population estimated to be about 90 million fewer than it could have been?
Answer: 1945

Question: What was marked by succession of wars, famines, and other disasters in the 20th century?
Answer: Russia and the Soviet Union

Question: When did Pan-Slavism develop as a movement?
Answer: In the 19th century

Question: Pan-Slavism became compromised when what empire started to use it as an ideology justifying its territorial conquests?
Answer: Russian Empire

Question: The Russian Empire used what as justification for its territorial conquests?
Answer: Pan-Slavism

Question: What notable political union of the 20th century covered most South Slavs?
Answer: Yugoslavia

Question: When did Yugoslavia break apart?
Answer: 1990s

Question: When was the word "Slavs" used in the national anthem of the Slovak Republic?
Answer: 1939–1945

Question: When was the word "Slavs" used in the national anthem of Yugoslavia?
Answer: 1943–1992

Question: When was the word "Slavs" used in the national anthem of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia?
Answer: 1992–2003

Question: When was the word "Slavs" used in the national anthem of Serbia and Montenegro?
Answer: 2003–2006

Question: Many Slavic populations that were part of the Warsaw Pact are originally from where?
Answer: the Russian SFSR, Ukrainian SSR and Byelorussian SSR

Question: What is the largest Slavic minority?
Answer: Russians

Question: Where is the largest Slavic minority located?
Answer: Kazakhstan

Question: What other Slavic minorities are in Kazakhstan?
Answer: Ukrainians, Belarusians and Poles

Question: What movement came into prominence in the mid-19th century that emphasized the common heritage and unity of all the Slavic peoples?
Answer: Pan-Slavism

Question: Where was the main focus of Pan-Slavism?
Answer: the Byzantine Empire, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and Venice

Question: Who used Pan-Slavism as a political tool?
Answer: The Russian Empire

Question: When did the Soviet Union gain political-military influence and control over most Slavic-majority nations?
Answer: between 1945 and 1948

Question: How long did the Soviet Union retain a hegemonic role?
Answer: until the period 1989–1991

Question: What began as an almost exclusively linguistic and philological enterprise?
Answer: Slavic studies

Question: When were Slavic languages recognized as Indo-European?
Answer: As early as 1833

Question: What languages were recognized as Indo-European?
Answer: Slavic languages

Question: In 1833, Slavic languages were recognized as what?
Answer: Indo-European

Question: What depends on what religion is usual for the respective Slavic ethnic groups?
Answer: The alphabet

Question: Who uses the Cyrillic alphabet?
Answer: The Orthodox

Question: Who uses the Latin alphabet?
Answer: the Roman Catholics

Question: Other than the Roman Catholics, who else uses Latin?
Answer: the Bosniaks

Question: What is a Latin script to write in Belarusian?
Answer: the Lacinka alphabet

Question: What is the supposed ancestor of all Slavic languages?
Answer: Proto-Slavic

Question: Proto-Slavic developed numerous lexical and morphophonological isoglosses with what languages?
Answer: Baltic languages

Question: The Indo-Europeans who remained after the migrations became speakers of what?
Answer: Balto-Slavic

Question: Who became speakers of Balto-Slavic?
Answer: Indo-Europeans

Question: Proto-Slavic is a descendant of what?
Answer: Proto-Indo-European

Question: Proto-Slavic is sometimes referred to as what?
Answer: Common Slavic or Late Proto-Slavic

Question: What is defined as the last stage of the language preceding the geographical split of the historical Slavic languages?
Answer: Proto-Slavic

Question: Old Church Slavonic manuscripts were based on the local Slavic speech of what?
Answer: Thessaloniki

Question: What could still serve the purpose of the first common Slavic literary language?
Answer: Old Church Slavonic manuscripts

Question: When were pagan Slavic populations Christianized?
Answer: between the 6th and 10th centuries

Question: What religion is predominant in the East and South Slavs?
Answer: Orthodox Christianity

Question: What religion is predominant in the West and western South Slavs?
Answer: Roman Catholicism

Question: When did the East-West Schism begin?
Answer: 11th century

Question: The majority of contemporary Slavic populations who profess a religion are what?
Answer: Orthodox

Question: Who is customarily divided along geographical lines into tree major subgroups?
Answer: Slavs

Question: What three major subgroups are Slavs divided into?
Answer: West Slavs, East Slavs, and South Slavs

Question: The Slav subgroups have had notable cultural contact with what kind of civilisations?
Answer: non-Slavic Bronze- and Iron Age

Question: Ethnic affiliation of who has become an ideological conflict?
Answer: the Lemkos

Question: The idea of "Carpatho-Ruthenian" nation is supported only by Lemkos residing where?
Answer: Transcarpathia and abroad

Question: Most inhabitants of historic Moravia considered themselves as what?
Answer: Czechs

Question: What group is considered part of the Poles?
Answer: Silesians

Question: Most Slavic Muslims now opt for what ethnicity?
Answer: Bosniak

Question: What two groups are considered two ethnonyms for a single ethnicity and the terms may even be used interchangeably?
Answer: Bosniak and Muslim

Question: A small number of people declare themselves Bosniak but are not necessarily Muslim by faith within what regions?
Answer: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Question: This identity continues to be used by a minority throughout the what former republics?
Answer: Yugoslav republics

Question: The nationality is also declared by diasporans living where?
Answer: USA and Canada

Question: Where are Bunjevci located?
Answer: Bačka

Question: Where are Šokci located?
Answer: Slavonia and Vojvodina

Question: Where are Janjevci located?
Answer: Kosovo

Question: Where are Burgenland Croats located?
Answer: Austria

Question: Where are Krashovans located?
Answer: Romania

Question: What sub-groups of Slovenes are extinct?
Answer: Carantanians and Somogy Slovenes

Question: What are the current sub-groups of Slovenes?
Answer: Prekmurians, Hungarian Slovenes, Carinthian Slovenes, Venetian Slovenes, Resians

Question: Serbs of Croatia are mostly descendants of who?
Answer: the Grenzers

Question: Where are Zagorci located?
Answer: northern Croatia

Question: Where are Istrijani located?
Answer: westernmost Croatia

Question: Where are Boduli located?
Answer: Adriatic islands

Question: Where are Vlaji located?
Answer: hinterland of Dalmatia

Question: What two DNA haplogroups predominate in modern Slavic peoples?
Answer: R1a1a [M17] and I2a2a

Question: What is the frequency of Haplogroup R1a in the Sorbs?
Answer: 63.39%

Question: What is the frequency of Haplogroup R1a in Poland?
Answer: 56.4%

Question: What is the frequency of Haplogroup R1a in Ukraine?
Answer: 54%

Question: What is the frequency of Haplogroup R1a in Russia?
Answer: 52%

Question: When did Rębała and colleagues studied several Slavic populations with the aim of localizing the Proto-Slavic homeland?
Answer: 2007

Question: Who studied several Slavic populations with the aim of localizing the Proto-Slavic homeland?
Answer: Rębała