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Physical Geography
The Soviet Union
Culture
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Modern Russia
100
These mountains separate Europe from Asia.
What are the Urals?
100
This is an example of a country that was part of the Soviet Union.
What is Russia or Estonia, or Latvia, or Lithuania, or Ukraine, or Belarus, or Moldova, or Georgia, or Armenia, or Azerbaijan, or Turkmenistan, or Uzbekistan, or Tujikistan, or Kyrgyzstan...
100
This is the dominant language in Russia.
What is Russian?
100
This country was the first to land on the moon.
What is the United States?
100
This current president of Russia likes to take pictures without his shirt on.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
200
This peninsula was taken over by Russia and protrudes into the Black Sea.
What is the Crimean Peninsula?
200
This was the last czar of Russia before the Soviet Union was established.
Who was Nicholas II?
200

This food is a Russian version of a pancake.

What is a blini?
200
This was the name of the first dog in space.
What is Laika?
200
Russia invaded this country in 2014.
What is the Ukraine?
300
This is the longest river on the European continent.
What is the Volga?
300

This flaming gas pit located in Turkmenistan is evidence of the Soviet Union's poor stewardship of the environment.

What is the "Gate to Hell"?
300
This is the majority religion of the people in Chechnya.
What is Islam?
300

This is the planet that the Soviet Union landed a probe on that the USA did not.

What is Venus?
300
This is the majority religion in Russia today.
What is Orthodox Christianity?
400
This sea is shrinking because the rivers that lead to it were diverted to grow cotton.
What is the Aral Sea?
400
This was the official religion of the Soviet Union.
What is atheism?
400
This is the word for an old Russian woman.
What is a babushka?
400
This was the first person to orbit the earth.
Who was Yuri Gagarin?
400
This is the job the Vladimir Putin had before he was president of Russia.
What is a spy?
500
This very cold northern region of Russia has very few people who live there.
What is Siberia?
500
This was the date of the meltdown at the nuclear power plant in Chernobyl.
What was April 26th, 1986?
500
Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas on this day.
What is January 7th?
500
This was the first American to orbit the earth.
Who was John Glenn?
500
This was the name of the reporter who was murdered because of her writings on the Russian abuses of the people of Chechnya.
Who was Anna Politikovskaya?