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