Kazakhstan
Azerbajian
Belarus
Lithuania
Russia
100
Kazakhstan's greatest mineral resource.
What is oil?
100
Armenia, Georgia, and Azerbaijan are known as this because of this mountain range.
What are the Caucasus?
100
Surrounded entirely by land.
What is landlocked?
100
Where Lithuania ranks, among the five nation-states, in terms of income per person.
What is first?
100
Over a year ago Russia invaded this country.
What is the Ukraine?
200
Kazakhstan faces this serious problem due to mismanagement by the Soviet Union.
What is environmental problems from pesticides, toxic waste
200
Azerbaijan has huge deposits of this mineral.
What is oil?
200
DAILY DOUBLE
Your team has found one of the two daily doubles. This allows a team to risk as many points as they would like on the unknown question. If they answer the question correctly, they receive the points. If they answer incorrectly, they lose those points.
According to the Freedom House, how free is the nation-state of Belarus? free, partly free, or not free?
200
Lithuania is a member of these two supranational groups.
What is the European Union and N.A.T.O.?
200
The type of government that the Soviet Union had.
What is a dictatorship?
300
Felix Dzerzhinsky was known by this fearsome nickname.
What is "Iron Felix?"
300
This many nation-states were formed out of the remains of the Soviet empire.
What is 15?
300
Belarus depends on this country for assistance.
What is Russia?
300
Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia are collectively known as this.
What are the Baltic States?
300
This former country once covered almost half of Europe and two-fifths of Asia.
What is the Soviet Union?
400
This is an independent state whose people share a common identity.
What is a nation-state?
400
Where Azerbaijan ranks (among the other nation-states) in reported crime.
What is first?
400
Around a fifth of Belarusian farmland is not usable because of this event.
What is the explosion at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant?
400
Lithuania produces good crops, but are in short supply of these things.
What are fossil fuels and metals?
400
DAILY DOUBLE
Your team has found one of the two daily doubles. This allows a team to risk as many points as they would like on the unknown question. If they answer the question correctly, they receive the points. If they answer incorrectly, they lose those points.
An example of challenges facing Russia today.
500
This what people from Kazakhstan are called.
What are Kazakhs?
500
This is a huge problem for Azerbaijan's future.
What is ethnic warfare between the Azeris and Armenians?
500
Roughly translated, this is what Belarus means.
What is White Russian?
500
The year that Lithuania became a member of the European Union.
What is 2004?
500
This is Russia's biggest advantage.
What is the amount of resources available?