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