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