Question: During what span was there a famine in the Soviet Union?
Answer: 1932–1933

Question: What document was ratified on December 5, 1936?
Answer: the 1936 Soviet Constitution

Question: What were the Kazakh ASSR and Kirghiz ASSR renamed per the 1936 Soviet Constitution?
Answer: the Kazakh and Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republics

Question: What republic did the Karakalpak Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic become a part of?
Answer: the Uzbek SSR

Question: What effect did the 1936 Soviet Constitution have on the size of the Russia?
Answer: reduced

Question: What was Soviet Russia called as of 1937?
Answer: the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

Question: What document changed the name of Russia in 1937?
Answer: the Russian Constitution of 1937

Question: What state was dissolved on March 3, 1944?
Answer: the Chechen-Ingush ASSR

Question: Who ordered the deportation of the residents of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR?
Answer: Stalin

Question: Why were the residents of the Chechen-Ingush ASSR deported?
Answer: accusations of collaboration with the invaders and separatism

Question: Along with the RSFSR, what republic received territory from the former Chechen-Ingush ASSR?
Answer: Georgian SSR

Question: What was the Tuvan People's Republic renamed when it joined the RSFSR?
Answer: Tuvan Autonomous Oblast

Question: On what date did the Tuvan People's Republic join the Russian SFSR?
Answer: October 11, 1944

Question: What did the former Tuvan People's Republic become in 1961?
Answer: an Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic

Question: Along with Estonia, what country was taken over by the Russian SFSR in 1944?
Answer: Latvia

Question: What modern districts of Estonia and Latvia were annexed by the RSFSR in 1944?
Answer: Pechorsky and Pytalovsky Districts

Question: Near what town did the RSFSR annex territory in 1944?
Answer: Ivangorod

Question: Along with Sakhalin Island, what islands were occupied by the Soviets after the Second World War?
Answer: Kuril Islands

Question: What administrative division did Sakhalin Island become a part of?
Answer: the RSFSR

Question: The ownership of what islands are disputed with Japan?
Answer: the southernmost Kurils

Question: On what date was Kaliningrad Oblast annexed?
Answer: April 17, 1946

Question: What province of Germany did Kaliningrad Oblast form a part of?
Answer: East Prussia

Question: What administrative division did Kaliningrad Oblast become a part of?
Answer: the Russian SFSR

Question: Who was demoted on February 8, 1955?
Answer: Malenkov

Question: To what position was Malenkov demoted?
Answer: deputy Prime Minister

Question: What position was held by Nikita Khrushchev?
Answer: First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party

Question: Who benefited from the demotion of Malenkov?
Answer: Nikita Khrushchev

Question: When was the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic transferred from the Georgian SSR?
Answer: January 9, 1957

Question: What territory was transferred along with the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic?
Answer: Karachay Autonomous Oblast

Question: Who transferred the Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic in 1957?
Answer: Khrushchev

Question: To what republic was the Karachay Autonomous Oblast transferred in 1957?
Answer: the Russian SFSR

Question: What republic had the Karachay Autonomous Oblast previously been a part of?
Answer: the Georgian SSR

Question: Who lost power in 1964?
Answer: Nikita Khrushchev

Question: Who assumed a position of power in 1964?
Answer: Leonid Brezhnev

Question: When did Leonid Brezhnev die?
Answer: 1982

Question: Whose assumption of power ended the era of stagnation?
Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev

Question: How did Mikhail Gorbachev end the era of stagnation?
Answer: introduced liberal reforms in Soviet society

Question: On what date was the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian SFSR adopted?
Answer: June 12, 1990

Question: What body passed the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian SFSR?
Answer: the Congress of People's Deputies of the Republic

Question: What was the name of the period inaugurated by the passage of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian SFSR?
Answer: the "War of Laws"

Question: What government was the Russian Federation fighting against during this period?
Answer: the Soviet Union

Question: On what date was the office of President of the RSFSR created?
Answer: March 17, 1991

Question: Who was the first President of the RSFSR?
Answer: Boris Yeltsin

Question: Who was the President of the Soviet Union in 1991?
Answer: Mikhail Gorbachev

Question: On what date did the first election for President of the RSFSR occur?
Answer: June 12

Question: During what period was there an attempted coup in Moscow?
Answer: August 19–21, 1991

Question: On what date was the Communist Party of the Russian SFSR suspended?
Answer: August 23

Question: Who signed the decree suspending the Communist Party of the Russian SFSR?
Answer: Yeltsin

Question: On what date was the Communist Parties of the USSR banned from operating in the RSFSR?
Answer: November 6

Question: Aside from Yeltsin, what notable figure was present at the signing of the August 23 decree?
Answer: Gorbachev

Question: In what country is Viskuli located?
Answer: Belarus

Question: On what date was the Agreement on the Establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States signed?
Answer: December 8, 1991

Question: What is another name for the Agreement on the Establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States?
Answer: Belavezha Accords

Question: What body ratified the Belavezha Accords on December 12?
Answer: the Supreme Soviet of the Russian SFSR

Question: The Belavezha Accords consisted of how many articles?
Answer: fourteen

Question: When did the Russian Federation assume the Soviet Union's membership in the UN?
Answer: December 24

Question: On what day did Gorbachev give up the presidency of the Soviet Union?
Answer: December 25

Question: What was the new name given to the Russian SFSR after the resignation of Gorbachev?
Answer: the Russian Federation

Question: Who was the first president of the Russian Federation?
Answer: Yeltsin

Question: In what periodical was the new sovereign status of the Russian Federation first published?
Answer: Rossiyskaya Gazeta

Question: What was the government of the RSFSR called up to 1946?
Answer: the Council of People's Commissars

Question: What was the RSFSR government called starting in 1946?
Answer: Council of Ministers

Question: When the Soviet Union ended in 1991, what was the RSFSR government called?
Answer: Council of Ministers–Government

Question: Who led the first government of the RSFSR?
Answer: Vladimir Lenin

Question: Who led the final government of the RSFSR?
Answer: Boris Yeltsin

Question: What political organization controlled the RSFSR up to 1991?
Answer: the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Question: What event prompted the end to the control of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the RSFSR?
Answer: the abortive 1991 August coup

Question: Who suspended the Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic?
Answer: Yeltsin

Question: Which company is directly above Universal Studios?
Answer: NBCUniversal

Question: Which company runs NBC Universal?
Answer: Comcast

Question: What is the nickname given to the large studios of which Universal is a part?
Answer: Big Six

Question: When was Universal Studios created?
Answer: 1912

Question: Where does Universal's filming take place?
Answer: Universal City, California

Question: What is another name for Universal Studios Inc.?
Answer: Universal Pictures

Question: Who is the ultimate owner of Universal Studios?
Answer: Comcast

Question: What is the street address of Universal Studios' production studios?
Answer: 100 Universal City Plaza Drive