Games
What is the most popular sport in Russia?
soccer (futbol)
(Hockey is also popular.)
Oymyakon in Siberia is one of the _______ inhabited towns on Earth.
coldest
(Schools in Oymyakon close when the temperature falls below -58℉!)
Russian is written using the ________ script.
Cyrillic
(There are 33 letters.)
Loto is a Russian game which is similar to the game _____.
bingo
(In Mexico, there is a similar game with a similar name: lotería.)
Europe’s longest river, the _____, is located in Russia.
Volga
(The Volga River is over 2,000 miles long.)
Russian is one of the six official languages of _______.
the United Nations
(Other languages spoken in Russia include Tatar and Ukrainian.)
What popular video game was first invented in the USSR in 1984?
Tetris
(The inventor’s name was Alexey Pazhitnov.)
When our meeting started at 6:00 PM EDT, what time was it in Moscow?
1:00 AM MSK on Wednesday, September 29
(There are eleven time zones in Russia.)
Russian belongs to the ____-________ language family.
Indo-European
(Russian is an East Slavic language.)
The world record for the largest set of matryoshka dolls had __ pieces.
51
(The sizes ranged from 0.12 inches tall to 21.25 inches tall!)
Around __% of Russians live in urban areas.
75
(Within the city limits of Moscow, there is a population of about 12.4 million people.)
In the Russian language, there are six _____.
cases
(Nominative, Accusative, Dative, Genitive, Instrumental, Prepositional)