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