A) Russia B) Canada C) Brazil D) China
A) dryness B) humidity C) cold D) heat
A) Kangaroo B) Siberian tiger C) Giraffe D) Polar bear
A) Lake Baikal B) Lake Superior C) Dead Sea D) Lake Victoria
A) Hindi B) Mandarin C) Russian D) Arabic
A) Irkutsk B) Novosibirsk C) Omsk D) Krasnoyarsk
A) Africa B) Asia C) North America D) Europe
A) Hot and humid B) Rainy C) Extremely cold D) Mild
A) Gulag B) Alcatraz C) Robben Island D) Devil's Island
A) Buddhism B) Russian Orthodoxy C) Islam D) Hinduism
A) Ural River B) Volga River C) Ob River D) Yenisei River
A) 1700 B) 1582 C) 1600 D) 1800
A) Chukotka in 1778 B) China in 1800 C) Mongolia in 1750 D) Kazakhstan in 1825
A) 20 million square kilometres B) 5 million square kilometres C) Over 13.1 million square kilometres D) 10 million square kilometres
A) Two-thirds B) About three-quarters C) One-half D) One-quarter
A) Mild and temperate year-round B) Dry and arid conditions C) Long, harsh winters with a January average of −25 °C D) Hot and humid summers
A) Over 85% B) 30% C) 10% D) 50%
A) Yakuts B) Nenets C) Inuit D) Evenks
A) The central one B) Far Eastern Federal District C) Central Federal District D) Ural Federal District
A) Sibirskoe Khanstvo B) Sibe C) Severia D) Yugra
A) 'Dense forest' B) 'Sleeping land' (Sib-ir) C) 'Northern lands' D) 'Wild land'
A) From the Sibe people B) From the Proto-Slavic word for 'north' C) Derived from a Mongolic word sibir D) From the Buryat language
A) 'Northern lands' B) 'Dense forest' C) 'Wild land' D) 'Sleeping land'
A) Ural tribes B) Buryat tribes C) Nenets people D) Sibe people
A) Nenets B) Sihirtia or Sirtya (also Sypyr) C) Yugra D) Buryat
A) Tokhtamysh B) Anatole Baikaloff C) Jan Chyliczkowski D) György Kara
A) 'North' B) 'Forest' C) 'Water' D) 'Land'
A) 'Wild land' B) 'Dense forest' C) 'Northern lands' D) 'Sleeping land'
A) A woolly rhinoceros B) A saber-toothed tiger C) A mammoth D) An Ice Age horse
A) The Sahara Desert B) The Andes Mountains C) The Alps D) Wrangel Island and the Taymyr Peninsula
A) Homo erectus and Homo habilis B) Australopithecus afarensis C) Neandertals only D) H. sapiens, H. neanderthalensis, and the Denisovans
A) They were proven to be modern humans B) DNA evidence identified them as a separate species C) They were found to be identical to Neanderthals D) Their existence was disproven
A) Magdalenian culture B) Afontova Gora C) Gravettian culture D) Clovis culture
A) Indigenous Australians B) Sub-Saharan Africans C) Native Polynesians D) Ancient East Asians
A) The domestication of the horse B) The spread of agriculture C) The first modern humans in Europe D) Both Paleosiberian peoples and Ancient Native Americans
A) The Mongol Empire B) The Ottoman Empire C) The Byzantine Empire D) The Roman Empire
A) Betula pendula, Fagus sylvatica, Populus tremuloides B) Sequoia sempervirens, Quercus alba, Acer saccharum C) Eucalyptus globulus, Acacia pycnantha, Banksia integrifolia D) Larix sibirica, Larix gmelinii, Picea obovata, Pinus pumila
A) Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky B) Vladivostok C) Novosibirsk D) Moscow
A) 400,000 B) 516,841 C) 700,000 D) 300,000
A) Spices B) Silk C) Gold D) Furs
A) Olkhon B) Kamchatka C) Chukotka D) Yakutsk
A) Lack of water resources B) Poor soil quality C) Short growing season D) Extreme cold temperatures
A) The Tunguska event B) An earthquake C) A volcanic eruption D) A flood
A) 500,000 B) 230,000 C) 1,000,000 D) 100,000
A) Restoring grasslands by studying large herbivores' effects on permafrost B) Developing new agricultural techniques C) Studying bird migration patterns D) Analyzing soil erosion in Siberia
A) Lena-Tunguska Gas Field B) Markovo Oil Field C) Sredne-Botuobin Gas Field D) Yaraktin Oil Field
A) Gold B) Manganese C) Copper D) Diamonds
A) Methane B) Ozone C) Carbon monoxide D) Nitrous oxide
A) Almost 9% B) Less than 3% C) About 5% D) More than 15%
A) Yekaterinburg B) Krasnoyarsk C) Tomsk D) Omsk
A) Western capercaillie B) Japanese quail C) Hazel grouse D) Black grouse
A) Less than 100,000 persons B) Doubtful that it exceeded 300,000 persons C) Approximately 500,000 persons D) Over a million persons
A) Lake Baikal B) The Ukok Plateau C) Kamchatka Peninsula D) Verkhoyansk Range
A) Slavic-origin Russians B) Buryats C) Tatars D) Yakuts
A) Immediate economic prosperity B) Rapid industrial growth C) Stable economic conditions D) Severe economic decline during Russia's transition to a market economy
A) Yakutsk B) Krasnoyarsk C) Irkutsk D) Norilsk
A) Southern Siberia B) West Siberia C) Primorye D) Sakha
A) Early 19th century B) Late 18th century C) Early 16th century D) Mid-17th century
A) Kiev B) Moscow C) St. Petersburg D) Novgorod
A) Galliformes B) Artiodactyla C) Carnivora D) Ursidae
A) Verkhoyansk fold belt B) Baykalian fold belt C) Taymr fold belt D) Markova-Angara Arch (anticline)
A) Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug B) Irkutsk Oblast C) Khanty-Mansiysk region D) Tomsk Oblast
A) Steppe B) Desert C) Taiga D) Tundra
A) The Trans-Siberian Railway B) The Suez Canal C) The Panama Canal D) The Erie Canal
A) Kamchatka B) East Siberia C) Southern Siberia D) West Siberia
A) Mustelidae B) Ursidae C) Canidae D) Felidae
A) Polar bear B) Siberian tiger C) Grey wolf D) Arctic hare
A) Lena-Tunguska Oil Field B) Sredne-Botuobin Gas Field C) Markovo Oil Field D) Yaraktin Oil Field
A) 2005 B) 2008 C) 2010 D) 1999
A) Tourism B) Fishing industry C) Industrial development D) Agricultural production
A) 500,000 B) 300,000 C) 478,085 D) 200,000
A) Yakuts B) Evenks C) Buryats D) Kets
A) Summer Olympics B) World Bandy Championship C) Winter Universiade D) Rugby World Cup
A) Cenozoic alluvial deposits B) Permian sedimentary rocks C) Carboniferous limestone D) Jurassic volcanic rocks
A) Xianbei state B) Mongol Empire C) Khanate of Sibir D) First Turkic Khaganate
A) Vorkuta B) Krasnoyarsk C) Sevvostlag D) Magadan
A) Kamchatka B) Sakha C) Primorye D) West Siberia
A) Public shaming B) Fines C) Sending internal exiles D) Imprisonment
A) Bandy B) Rugby C) Speed skating D) Basketball
A) Early Cambrian Osa Horizon bar-sandstone B) Proterozoic Parfenovo Horizon C) Vendian Yaraktin Horizon D) Middle Devonian Baykalian Horizon
A) 1453 B) 1204 C) 1492 D) 1032
A) Novgorod B) Tobolsk C) St. Petersburg D) Moscow
A) Khabarovsk B) Krasnoyarsk C) Novosibirsk D) Irkutsk
A) Buddha B) Ak Ana C) Kini'je D) Num-Torum
A) Kemerovo B) Krasnoyarsk C) Novosibirsk D) Irkutsk
A) Irkutsk B) Novosibirsk C) Khabarovsk D) Kemerovo
A) Irkutsk B) Tomsk C) Tobolsk D) Novosibirsk
A) STM Enisei B) Krasny Yar C) Sibselmash D) Yenisey Krasnoyarsk
A) Pelmeni B) Stroganina C) Borsch D) Solyanka
A) Omsk Refinery B) Novosibirsk Refinery C) Krasnoyarsk Refinery D) Tyumen Refinery |