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