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