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