Siberian - Exam
  • 1. Where is Siberia located?
A) Canada
B) Russia
C) Brazil
D) China
  • 2. Siberia is known for its extreme ________.
A) humidity
B) heat
C) cold
D) dryness
  • 3. Which of the following animals is commonly found in Siberia?
A) Siberian tiger
B) Kangaroo
C) Polar bear
D) Giraffe
  • 4. Which famous lake is located in Siberia?
A) Lake Superior
B) Lake Victoria
C) Lake Baikal
D) Dead Sea
  • 5. Which language is spoken in Siberia?
A) Hindi
B) Russian
C) Mandarin
D) Arabic
  • 6. What is the largest city in Siberia?
A) Krasnoyarsk
B) Novosibirsk
C) Omsk
D) Irkutsk
  • 7. Siberia is part of which continent?
A) Asia
B) Africa
C) North America
D) Europe
  • 8. What is the climate of Siberia like in winter?
A) Rainy
B) Mild
C) Hot and humid
D) Extremely cold
  • 9. Which of the following is a famous prison camp located in Siberia?
A) Devil's Island
B) Robben Island
C) Gulag
D) Alcatraz
  • 10. What is the dominant religion in Siberia?
A) Islam
B) Russian Orthodoxy
C) Buddhism
D) Hinduism
  • 11. Which river usually forms the southernmost portion of Siberia's western boundary?
A) Yenisei River
B) Ural River
C) Ob River
D) Volga River
  • 12. When did the conquest of Siberia begin?
A) 1582
B) 1800
C) 1600
D) 1700
  • 13. Which territory's annexation marked the conclusion of the conquest of Siberia?
A) Mongolia in 1750
B) Chukotka in 1778
C) Kazakhstan in 1825
D) China in 1800
  • 14. What is the approximate area of Siberia?
A) 10 million square kilometres
B) Over 13.1 million square kilometres
C) 5 million square kilometres
D) 20 million square kilometres
  • 15. What fraction of Russia's total area does Siberia cover?
A) One-half
B) About three-quarters
C) One-quarter
D) Two-thirds
  • 16. How is Siberia's climate generally described?
A) Dry and arid conditions
B) Long, harsh winters with a January average of −25 °C
C) Hot and humid summers
D) Mild and temperate year-round
  • 17. What percentage of Siberia's population is of European descent?
A) 30%
B) 10%
C) 50%
D) Over 85%
  • 18. Name an Indigenous Turkic community in Siberia.
A) Yakuts
B) Nenets
C) Inuit
D) Evenks
  • 19. Which federal district is officially referred to as 'Siberian'?
A) Far Eastern Federal District
B) Central Federal District
C) The central one
D) Ural Federal District
  • 20. What was the name used for northern lands east of the Ural Mountains before Siberia?
A) Yugra
B) Sibe
C) Severia
D) Sibirskoe Khanstvo
  • 21. According to some sources, what does the Siberian Tatar word for 'sleeping land' suggest about the origin of 'Siberia'?
A) 'Northern lands'
B) 'Wild land'
C) 'Sleeping land' (Sib-ir)
D) 'Dense forest'
  • 22. What does Mongolist György Kara suggest as the origin of the name Siberia?
A) Derived from a Mongolic word sibir
B) From the Proto-Slavic word for 'north'
C) From the Sibe people
D) From the Buryat language
  • 23. What does the Buryat word 'sheber' mean?
A) 'Dense forest'
B) 'Wild land'
C) 'Northern lands'
D) 'Sleeping land'
  • 24. According to one hypothesis, who might Siberia be named after?
A) Sibe people
B) Buryat tribes
C) Ural tribes
D) Nenets people
  • 25. What is the hypothetical Paleo-Asiatic ethnic group that might be linked to the name Siberia?
A) Nenets
B) Buryat
C) Sihirtia or Sirtya (also Sypyr)
D) Yugra
  • 26. Which historian proposed that Siberia's name derives from the Proto-Slavic word for 'north'?
A) Tokhtamysh
B) Anatole Baikaloff
C) Jan Chyliczkowski
D) György Kara
  • 27. What does Anatole Baikaloff suggest the Turkic word 'su' means?
A) 'North'
B) 'Forest'
C) 'Water'
D) 'Land'
  • 28. According to Anatole Baikaloff, what does the Turkic word 'bir' mean?
A) 'Wild land'
B) 'Northern lands'
C) 'Sleeping land'
D) 'Dense forest'
  • 29. Which prehistoric animal was found preserved in permafrost and is known as Yuka?
A) A mammoth
B) A saber-toothed tiger
C) An Ice Age horse
D) A woolly rhinoceros
  • 30. Where were the last known populations of woolly mammoths believed to exist?
A) The Sahara Desert
B) The Andes Mountains
C) Wrangel Island and the Taymyr Peninsula
D) The Alps
  • 31. Which species of humans lived in southern Siberia around 40,000 years ago?
A) Homo erectus and Homo habilis
B) H. sapiens, H. neanderthalensis, and the Denisovans
C) Australopithecus afarensis
D) Neandertals only
  • 32. What was identified in 2010 regarding the Denisovans?
A) Their existence was disproven
B) They were proven to be modern humans
C) DNA evidence identified them as a separate species
D) They were found to be identical to Neanderthals
  • 33. Which culture is genetically similar to the Mal'ta–Buret' culture?
A) Magdalenian culture
B) Gravettian culture
C) Clovis culture
D) Afontova Gora
  • 34. From which region did the first people in the Americas diverge approximately 36,000 years ago?
A) Native Polynesians
B) Indigenous Australians
C) Ancient East Asians
D) Sub-Saharan Africans
  • 35. What did the interaction between Ancient East Asians and Ancient North Eurasians give rise to?
A) The domestication of the horse
B) Both Paleosiberian peoples and Ancient Native Americans
C) The spread of agriculture
D) The first modern humans in Europe
  • 36. Which empire conquered a large part of Siberia in the 13th century?
A) The Roman Empire
B) The Mongol Empire
C) The Byzantine Empire
D) The Ottoman Empire
  • 37. Which tree species are mentioned as part of the flora in Siberia?
A) Larix sibirica, Larix gmelinii, Picea obovata, Pinus pumila
B) Betula pendula, Fagus sylvatica, Populus tremuloides
C) Eucalyptus globulus, Acacia pycnantha, Banksia integrifolia
D) Sequoia sempervirens, Quercus alba, Acer saccharum
  • 38. Which city cannot be reached by road from other major cities in Russia or Asia?
A) Moscow
B) Vladivostok
C) Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
D) Novosibirsk
  • 39. How many prisoners died in the Gulag camps between 1941 and 1943?
A) 400,000
B) 300,000
C) 516,841
D) 700,000
  • 40. What attracted Russians to Siberia in particular during early exploration?
A) Gold
B) Silk
C) Furs
D) Spices
  • 41. Which island is known for its sacred areas in Siberia?
A) Yakutsk
B) Kamchatka
C) Olkhon
D) Chukotka
  • 42. What restricts Siberian agriculture in most of the region?
A) Short growing season
B) Poor soil quality
C) Extreme cold temperatures
D) Lack of water resources
  • 43. What event occurred on June 30, 1908, near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River?
A) An earthquake
B) A volcanic eruption
C) A flood
D) The Tunguska event
  • 44. How many Russians had settled in Siberia by 1709?
A) 100,000
B) 230,000
C) 500,000
D) 1,000,000
  • 45. What is the primary focus of experimentation at Pleistocene Park since 1988?
A) Analyzing soil erosion in Siberia
B) Restoring grasslands by studying large herbivores' effects on permafrost
C) Developing new agricultural techniques
D) Studying bird migration patterns
  • 46. Which gas field was discovered in 1970?
A) Yaraktin Oil Field
B) Markovo Oil Field
C) Sredne-Botuobin Gas Field
D) Lena-Tunguska Gas Field
  • 47. Which mineral is NOT mentioned as being abundant in the Central Siberian Plateau?
A) Manganese
B) Gold
C) Diamonds
D) Copper
  • 48. What greenhouse gas, more powerful than carbon dioxide, may be released from thawing peat bogs in Siberia?
A) Nitrous oxide
B) Carbon monoxide
C) Methane
D) Ozone
  • 49. What percentage of Earth's land surface does Siberia cover?
A) Almost 9%
B) More than 15%
C) Less than 3%
D) About 5%
  • 50. Which city became a major oil-refining hub?
A) Tomsk
B) Omsk
C) Krasnoyarsk
D) Yekaterinburg
  • 51. Which bird species is not part of the Family Phasianidae in Siberia?
A) Hazel grouse
B) Black grouse
C) Japanese quail
D) Western capercaillie
  • 52. What was the estimated total early modern Siberian population according to historian John F. Richards?
A) Less than 100,000 persons
B) Approximately 500,000 persons
C) Doubtful that it exceeded 300,000 persons
D) Over a million persons
  • 53. Which UNESCO World Heritage Site is located in Siberia?
A) Kamchatka Peninsula
B) Lake Baikal
C) Verkhoyansk Range
D) The Ukok Plateau
  • 54. Which ethnic group is the largest in Siberia?
A) Slavic-origin Russians
B) Tatars
C) Yakuts
D) Buryats
  • 55. What major economic event occurred in Siberia after the Soviet collapse in 1991?
A) Stable economic conditions
B) Severe economic decline during Russia's transition to a market economy
C) Immediate economic prosperity
D) Rapid industrial growth
  • 56. What major industrial city in northern Siberia developed from a Gulag camp?
A) Irkutsk
B) Krasnoyarsk
C) Yakutsk
D) Norilsk
  • 57. Which region in Siberia is the coldest?
A) Primorye
B) West Siberia
C) Sakha
D) Southern Siberia
  • 58. By what year had Russia established control extending to the Pacific Ocean?
A) Mid-17th century
B) Early 19th century
C) Early 16th century
D) Late 18th century
  • 59. Which city-state established trade routes to the Ob River and claimed lands called Yugra?
A) Kiev
B) St. Petersburg
C) Moscow
D) Novgorod
  • 60. Which mammal order includes the moose and Bactrian camel?
A) Galliformes
B) Artiodactyla
C) Ursidae
D) Carnivora
  • 61. What geological feature was discovered due to a regional geologic reconnaissance study beginning in 1932?
A) Verkhoyansk fold belt
B) Markova-Angara Arch (anticline)
C) Taymr fold belt
D) Baykalian fold belt
  • 62. Which region contains about 70% of Russia's developed oil fields?
A) Irkutsk Oblast
B) Khanty-Mansiysk region
C) Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug
D) Tomsk Oblast
  • 63. What is the dominant vegetation type outside the extreme northwest of the Central Siberian Plateau?
A) Tundra
B) Steppe
C) Taiga
D) Desert
  • 64. What major infrastructure project linked Siberia more closely to industrialising Russia during Nicholas II's reign?
A) The Trans-Siberian Railway
B) The Panama Canal
C) The Suez Canal
D) The Erie Canal
  • 65. Which region in Siberia receives more than 500 millimetres (20 in) of precipitation?
A) East Siberia
B) West Siberia
C) Southern Siberia
D) Kamchatka
  • 66. Which animal family includes the snow leopard and Amur leopard?
A) Mustelidae
B) Canidae
C) Ursidae
D) Felidae
  • 67. Which species is not listed under the Order Carnivora in Siberia?
A) Polar bear
B) Arctic hare
C) Siberian tiger
D) Grey wolf
  • 68. Which oil field was discovered in 1962?
A) Sredne-Botuobin Gas Field
B) Markovo Oil Field
C) Yaraktin Oil Field
D) Lena-Tunguska Oil Field
  • 69. In which year did a research expedition detect high levels of methane above the Siberian Arctic?
A) 2005
B) 1999
C) 2008
D) 2010
  • 70. What was the primary focus of Siberia's settlements before the economic transition?
A) Industrial development
B) Agricultural production
C) Tourism
D) Fishing industry
  • 71. According to the 2010 census, how many indigenous Turkic-speaking Yakuts were there?
A) 300,000
B) 500,000
C) 200,000
D) 478,085
  • 72. Which indigenous group is the most numerous in Siberia?
A) Evenks
B) Buryats
C) Kets
D) Yakuts
  • 73. Which event was hosted by Krasnoyarsk in 2019?
A) World Bandy Championship
B) Winter Universiade
C) Rugby World Cup
D) Summer Olympics
  • 74. What is the primary composition of the West Siberian Plain?
A) Cenozoic alluvial deposits
B) Permian sedimentary rocks
C) Carboniferous limestone
D) Jurassic volcanic rocks
  • 75. Which ancient state existed in Siberia from the 6th to 7th century?
A) Xianbei state
B) Mongol Empire
C) First Turkic Khaganate
D) Khanate of Sibir
  • 76. Which of these was a well-known cluster of Gulag camps in northeastern Siberia?
A) Krasnoyarsk
B) Sevvostlag
C) Vorkuta
D) Magadan
  • 77. Which region experiences heavy summer rainfall due to monsoonal influences?
A) Primorye
B) West Siberia
C) Sakha
D) Kamchatka
  • 78. What was one of the main Russian punitive practices involving Siberia in the 19th century?
A) Fines
B) Sending internal exiles
C) Public shaming
D) Imprisonment
  • 79. What is Russia's third most popular sport that holds significance in Siberia?
A) Speed skating
B) Basketball
C) Rugby
D) Bandy
  • 80. What horizon did the Markovo–1 well produce from?
A) Proterozoic Parfenovo Horizon
B) Vendian Yaraktin Horizon
C) Middle Devonian Baykalian Horizon
D) Early Cambrian Osa Horizon bar-sandstone
  • 81. In which year was Siberia first mentioned in chronicles?
A) 1032
B) 1204
C) 1492
D) 1453
  • 82. What was the de facto capital of Siberia from 1590?
A) St. Petersburg
B) Novgorod
C) Moscow
D) Tobolsk
  • 83. Which city is one of the centers of rugby in Russia?
A) Krasnoyarsk
B) Khabarovsk
C) Novosibirsk
D) Irkutsk
  • 84. Which of the following is not a local god in Siberia?
A) Buddha
B) Num-Torum
C) Kini'je
D) Ak Ana
  • 85. Which city is home to Russia's first indoor arena specifically built for bandy?
A) Krasnoyarsk
B) Novosibirsk
C) Irkutsk
D) Kemerovo
  • 86. Where is the world's largest indoor arena specifically built for bandy located?
A) Irkutsk
B) Khabarovsk
C) Novosibirsk
D) Kemerovo
  • 87. Which city is known for being near Lake Baikal?
A) Novosibirsk
B) Tobolsk
C) Tomsk
D) Irkutsk
  • 88. Which basketball team from Krasnoyarsk has played in the VTB United League since 2011–12?
A) Yenisey Krasnoyarsk
B) STM Enisei
C) Sibselmash
D) Krasny Yar
  • 89. Which dish is made from raw, thin, long-sliced frozen fish in northern Arctic Siberia?
A) Pelmeni
B) Borsch
C) Stroganina
D) Solyanka
  • 90. Where is Russia's largest oil refinery located?
A) Novosibirsk Refinery
B) Tyumen Refinery
C) Krasnoyarsk Refinery
D) Omsk Refinery
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