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