PEOPLE
PLACES
WHAT'S IN A NAME
TRUE/FALSE
GRAB BAG
100

Who was the last czar of Russia?

Nicholas II

100

What desert covers about 70 percent of Turkmenistan?

Karakum 

100

"The Roof of the World" refers to....

Pamir Mountains

100

The system in which individuals must give up control of all property to the government is CAPITALISM?

False; Collectivism

100

What war was fought over Russia's attempts to invade Ottoman territory?

Crimean

200

Who is the man whose writings promoted Communism?

Karl Marx

200

What is the name of the coldest city in the world?

Yakutsk

200

"One of the majority" refers to....

Bolshevik

200

The Russian president whose goal was to reclaim all the land that had ever been part of the Soviet Union was Vladimir Putin.

True

200

Who was the Soviet leader who supported the building of the Berlin Wall?

Nikita Khrushchev

300

Who was last leader of the Soviet Union?

Mikhail Gorbachev

300

What is the name of the world's largest landmass?

Eurasia

300

"Sleeping land" refers to....

Siberia

300

The primary religion in the five former Soviet republics of Central Asia is Catholicism.

False; Islam 

300

What is the name of Europe's longest river that flows through Russia, and the deepest freshwater lake in the world also located in Russia?

Volga River; Lake Baikal

400

Who was the Soviet leader during the Great Purge?

Joseph Stalin

400

What is the name of the world's largest landlocked country?

Kazakhstan

400

"Land of the Free" refers to....

Uzbekistan

400

Vladimir the Saint was the man who introduced the Russians to Eastern Orthodoxy.

True

400

Who is the first true national leader of a united Russia?

Ivan III

500

Who was the leader of the first Communist state in history?

Vladimir Lenin

500

What is one of the world's largest regions of continuously level land?

The West Siberian Plain

500

"Switzerland of Central Asia" refers to....

Kyrgyzstan

500

Gorbachev's plan to restructure the Soviet Union's business and economy was know as glasnost.

False; perestroika

500

What are three hardships people in the Soviet Union faced under the Communist government?

-People were told where to work and live
-Severely limited freedoms
-Living arrangements were poorly built/crowded
-Travel restrictions
-Government controlled education
-Groceries were scarce