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100

Two continents meeting in the Ural Mountains.

What are Asia and Europe?

100

What does the term Cyrillic mean?

What is an alphabet? 

100

The Russian legislature is called this.

What is the Federal Assembly?

100

A set of resources, like roads and airports.

What is Infrastructure?

100

How many cats live at the Hermitage Museum in Russia? Closest answer gets the points.

What is 70?

100

The Capital of Russia.

What is Moscow?

100

The name given to Ivan IV.

What is "Ivan the Terrible?"

100

St. Peters is located on this.

What is the Gulf of Finland?

100

The name of the nuclear power plant that exploded in the Ukraine in 1986.

What is Chernobyl?

100

Why is there a sculpture of a dog, Laika, in Russia.

What is the first dog in space?

100

A group of Volcanoes, including 20 active ones, in the Russian Far East.

What is "The Ring of Fire?"

100

The first leader of the Soviet Union when it became a Communist country. 

Who is Vladimir Lenin? or Who is Lenin?

100

A factory or process that melts ore, copper and iron.

What is a smelter?

100

To try and wipe out an entire race or members of a group.

What is Ethnic Cleansing?

100

When is it appropriate to give an even number of flowers in Russia?

What is Only at funerals?

100

The longest river in Europe.

What is Volga?

100

The name of the Russian Communist group that seized power during the Russian Revolution.

Who are the Bolsheviks?

100

This lies east of the Urals, where winters are long and severe.  What is the name of the area?

What is Siberia?

100

A Russian work camp, or jail.

What is a gulag?

100

Russia is so big, it has 11 of these, but only uses 9?

What are time zones?

100

A forest made of mainly evergreen trees.

What is a taiga?

100

What two countries were the main players in the Cold War?

What are The United States and The Soviet Union?

100

This railroad is the longest single rail line in the world.

What is Trans-Siberian Railroad?

100

The two types of location we have studied.

What are absolute and relative?

100

Do Russians drive on the right, like the U.S., or on the left, like the U.K.

What is the right?