Capitals
Bratislava
Slovakia
What is Europe’s highest peak?
Mt. Elbrus
Who was the founder of Communism?
Karl Marx
What is the second largest country in Europe?
Ukraine
What is the deceptive use of things to convince people of something?
propaganda
Budapest
Hungary
What is the extremely cold region in the north of Asian Russia that was once used as a “prison” by the czars and Communists?
Siberia
What were Russian Communists once called?
Bolsheviks
What is Europe’s longest river?
Volga R.
What was the organization founded after WWII to promote world peace?
United Nations
Sofia
Bulgaria
Tchaikovsky is a famous Russian ____________.
composer
Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov are examples of Russian __________.
writers
What is the largest level region in the world?
Who was the leader of the first Communist state?
Lenin
Bucharest
Romania
Who was the most powerful man in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Yelstin
What did Gorbachev try to allow to maintain his power?
Perestroika and glasnost
What is the world’s deepest freshwater lake?
L. Baikal
What countries are considered “Baltic States”? Name at least 2 of them.
Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia
Prague
Czech Republic
Which Russian food is most famous?
caviar
What is the traditionally nomadic people who have one of the largest settlement in Romania?
Gypsies
What are the 2 straits controlled by Turkey that give Russia access to the Black Sea?
Bosporus and Dardanelles
What was the war that Russia lost against England, France, Turkey, and Sardinia?
Crimean War