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  "Young Catherine" II of II    
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This television movie aired in 1991 on TNT. Catherine clearly has different views on Russia than her husband. She narrowly misses being sent away and has a child. Both she and her husband have had affairs.
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  "Young Catherine" I of II    
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This television aired in 1991 on TNT. A young German Princess is chosen to be the Grand Duke of Russia's bride. She gives up her family, religion and home.
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  Young Catherine    
Multiple Choice
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This is my quiz on the 1991 made for television movie "Young Catherine". This was a TNT original movie on the early life and times of the future Empress of Russia. If you loved the movie, this shouldn't be too difficult.
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trivia question Quick Question
Who freed Gregory Orlov from his prison?

From Quiz ""Young Catherine" II of II"





Young Catherine Trivia Questions
1. Where were Peter and Catherine put under house arrest?

From Quiz "Young Catherine" II of II

Answer: Their rooms

To ensure that they would get pregnant, the Empress ordered them to house arrest. She had Maria Choglokov and her husband babysit them with their bedchamber doors locked.

2. Who came to fetch Princess Sophie to Russia?

From Quiz "Young Catherine" I of II

Answer: Count Gregory Orlov

Count Gregory Orlov and five other men dressed in furs, hats and jackets crossed the border. They carried with them a large medal with the Empress' coat of arms this apparently signified to the border patrol that he was on Imperial business.

3. Right at the beginning of the movie, you can see the date and location of events. What year does it show in the small German principality Anhalt Zerbst?

From Quiz Young Catherine

Answer: 1744

The Russian soldiers came to the castle with a note requesting Sophia journey to Russia as a potential bride for Empress Elizabeth's nephew, the Grand Duke Peter.

4. Who suggested that Catherine take a lover to get pregnant?

From Quiz "Young Catherine" II of II

Answer: Maria Choglokov

It was Maria Choglokov, but according to Sir Charles the idea had to have come from the Empress. He then suggested she take a lover. It wasn't her marriage at stake that drove her to it but her very life was at stake. She later gave birth to Grand Duke Paul, whom the Empress took complete charge of.

5. Who went with Princess Sophie to Russia?

From Quiz "Young Catherine" I of II

Answer: Her mother

Princess Johanna escorted Sophie to Russia and by Imperial orders her father was expressly excluded. So Prince Christian was in the same carriage as his wife and daughter. They departed at Emperor Frederick's palace in Berlin and Sophie never saw her father again. Following behind them was a coach that would take Christian back to Anhalt-Zerbst and third one contained luggage.

6. Who was kneeling at Empress Elizabeth's deathbed?

From Quiz "Young Catherine" II of II

Answer: Catherine

Peter, Catherine and Archimandrite Todorsky were at Empress Elizabeth's side as she died. Catherine knelt on her knees beside Elizabeth's bedside as she died. In the church for Elizabeth's funeral, Catherine, dressed in black, was at the coffin on her knees in prayer. Peter spoke in her ear, "Just making sure she's dead." He then laughed so loud it echoed in the cathedral.

7. Who paid Princess Johanna a surprise and secret visit?

From Quiz "Young Catherine" I of II

Answer: Prussian Ambassador

Count Ernst von Manheim was Ambassador to Emperor Frederick the Great of Prussia. Somehow Frederick knew all about Russian business before the news officially came to him. Count von Manheim informed her that Emperor Frederick wanted her to be an unofficial spy for Prussia.

8. Who portrayed Frederick the great in this movie?

From Quiz Young Catherine

Answer: Maximilian Schell

Born in Vienna, Maximilian Schell jumped the boundaries of working both sides of the camera. Just a tidbit here, Schell is the godfather to Angelina Jolie.

9. Emperor Peter III: "I said no mourning!" Catherine: "I am told that ______ becomes me. AND I mourn. I mourn for a woman who once loved Russia, and I mourn for the Russia she loved."

From Quiz "Young Catherine" II of II

Answer: Black

Emperor Peter III came to dinner with Countess Elizabeth Vorontsova on his arm. He sat in his chair with Vorontsova sitting right next to him. Just then Catherine entered the dining room wearing black much to Peter's annoyance. Peter then stood up and prepared to make a toast, Emperor Peter III: "To the Imperial Family!" Catherine: "Pray, tell His Majesty, that the Imperial Family comprises of the Emperor, myself, and the Grand Duke Paul, our son. That is all." Palace Butler: "I am commanded by Her Royal..." Peter threw his drink in the butler's face. Peter: "You are a fool!" Catherine: "Every court has its clown, don't you think?"

10. Empress Elizabeth: "I imagine nothing, I suspect everything. An ______ with no enemies is no ______."

From Quiz "Young Catherine" I of II

Answer: Empress

Count Michael Vorontsov had hired a maid who poured poison into Sophie's tea. Slowly the poison gave her fever, vomiting and fainting spells. The Empress had departed St Petersburg for religious devotions and had sped back to town to her side. She sniffed the tray of food and knew something was a foot. She ordered everyone out forbidding the girl's own mother to attend her daughter. Princess Catherine Deshkova, Sophie's chief lady-in-waiting, was ordered by the Empress to bring in a cooking stove and cooking supplies.

11. Who confessed to Count Michael Vorontsov of Catherine's affair with Orlov?

From Quiz "Young Catherine" II of II

Answer: Maria Choglokov

Count Vorontsov was interrogating Maria Choglokov who claimed that it was Catherine's idea for the affair. Russian Guards on Vorontzov's orders arrested Count Gregory Orlov. Count Orlov's brother Alexei announced he was going to Peterhof to fetch the new empress.

12. Who went to inform the Empress of Sophie's grave illness?

From Quiz "Young Catherine" I of II

Answer: Count Gregory Orlov

Archimandrite Todorsky was in the hallway outside Sophie's room when Johanna came out. He insisted that the best doctors be summoned at once but Johanna feared that if the Empress thought her daughter was weak or sickly the marriage would never happen. When they left the hallway Count Orlov secretly entered her room looked at her for a moment and sped off on his horse. He startled the Empress who was at her religious devotions. He divulged that "Majesty the Princess Sophie is gravely ill." "How do you know?" "I have seen the Princess."

13. Who was in the coach with a uniform for Catherine to wear?

From Quiz "Young Catherine" II of II

Answer: Princess Deshkova

Alexei Orlov rode with her as far as the coach where Princess Deshkova was waiting. She brought Catherine a uniform to wear. At a rally with troops she said, "On our sacred throne lies a man who despises the Holy Church." After a few more words the troops sided with her then Archimandrite Todorsky said, "Swear allegiance to Catherine! Empress by the Grace of God!"

14. Who gave Princess Sophie her new name?

From Quiz "Young Catherine" I of II

Answer: Empress Elizabeth

Sophie was getting herself ready for the conversion ceremony for her entering the Russian Orthodox Church. Just then the Empress and Count Vorontsov entered her room with a letter Johanna had written to Frederick of Prussia. Elizabeth banished Johanna from Russia but kept Sophie there for the wedding. She never saw her mother again.

15. Catherine was speaking of whom she made this statement, "Every court has its clown, don't you think?"

From Quiz Young Catherine

Answer: Peter, the Grand Duke

Catherine came to the dinner table dressed in her black mourning attire. The Duke has a temper tantrum in front of everyone in the room.

16. Who freed Gregory Orlov from his prison?

From Quiz "Young Catherine" II of II

Answer: Soldiers

Some soldiers got a tree log to use a battering ram to free Gregory Orlov. The soldiers greeted him with thunderous applause. Catherine and Orlov on horses followed by their followers turned on a street and were confronted by Count Vorontzov, a horse soldier and other soldiers. Vorontzov ordered them in the name of the Emperor to fire. Catherine told her men to hold their fire and galloped forward a bit. Catherine: "Any man who wants to shoot his Empress. Now is the time!" Vorontzov's men laid down their weapons and joined Catherine's side.

17. Who was infected with small pox shortly before the wedding?

From Quiz "Young Catherine" I of II

Answer: Grand Duke Peter

Archimandrite Todorsky had her brought to the cathedral for prayers for Peter who had become infected with smallpox. Catherine attempted to see him but Vorontsov prevented her and The Empress also said they couldn't allow visitors. When Peter returned completely cured he was forever marked with the scars of the illness. He also became an ill-tempered, horrible man.

18. Emperor Frederick the Great: "This frail, young slip of a girl has won herself an ______, and there is nothing anyone can do about it. Against all the odds, that is what she has done."

From Quiz "Young Catherine" II of II

Answer: Empire

Peter had been killed by Gregory Orlov just earlier. Count Vorontsov had told Peter before he left for Prussia that Frederick owed him (Peter) much considering he ended the war that his aunt started. By the time Vorontsov arrived in Berlin, Peter was already dead and Catherine was now Empress.

19. Sir Charles: "Ah, well. I am a foreigner, and an old man. I can afford the luxury of true ____________."

From Quiz "Young Catherine" I of II

Answer: Friendship

This was before Peter recovered from the illness of course. Sir Charles Hanbury Williams, the British Ambassador, was her only dearest friend in St Petersburg. He said if Peter should die she was would essentially be forgotten by everyone. But should he live everyone would be fawning over like puppies.

20. "May your heart be light and your purse be heavy" is an old Russian toast, proposed by whom?

From Quiz Young Catherine

Answer: Count Gregory Orlov

This was a saying Catherine repeated to the Count before he left for a promotion at his old soldier post.

21. Finish this line: "May your ______ be light and your purse is heavy."

From Quiz "Young Catherine" II of II

Answer: Heart

Gregory had told Catherine the Russian toast just before they made it to Saint Petersburg for her wedding to Peter. When Gregory told her it was he who murdered Peter, she repeated the toast.

22. Whom did Peter idolize more than anything?

From Quiz "Young Catherine" I of II

Answer: Emperor Frederick the Great of Prussia

He wore a Prussian uniform as often as he could and believed he would be a great general like Frederick. Repercussions that would later harm him towards the end.

23. The movie suggests that Peter and Catherine's son, the Grand Duke Paul belonged to another man. What is his name?

From Quiz Young Catherine

Answer: Count Gregory Orlov

In the movie, Sophia is seen intimately with Count Gregory Orlov more than once.

24. Who held the crown above her head at Catherine's coronation?

From Quiz "Young Catherine" II of II

Answer: Catherine II

Laden down with jewels and a coronation robe, Archimandrite Todorsky handed her the crown, which Catherine held above her head. She would now be considered Catherine II The Empress and Autocrat of all the Russias. She would go down in history as Catherine the Great.

25. How long were Peter and Catherine married when the Empress' doctor examined her?

From Quiz "Young Catherine" I of II

Answer: 2 years

The Empress was angry that over two years of marriage Catherine still hadn't given Russia an heir. She ordered her personal physician to examine Catherine who was then discovered to still be a virgin.

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