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