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