Russian Revolution
Geography
Former Soviet
Countries
Countries
Chernobyl
Miscellaneous
100
He was the last czar of Russia, murdered during the revolution.
Who is Nicholas II?
100
These Russian mountains separate Europe from Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
100
The leader of this country north of Ukraine, is friendly to Vladimir Putin.
What is Belarus?
100
Chernobyl is located north of this Ukrainian capital.
What is Kiev?
100
The Soviet Union no longer existed after this year.
What is 1991?
200
Karl Marx is known as the father of this economic system.
What is communism?
200
The city of St. Petersburg is important because of its location next to this large body of water.
What is the Baltic Sea? (or Gulf of Finland, which leads to the Baltic Sea)
200
After Russia, this is the largest of the former Soviet Union countries.
What is Kazakhstan?
200
Unfortunately, many people who lived nearby or helped clean up the power plant died of this "c" disease.
What is cancer?
200
This dance is known for moves like this.
What is Cossack? (or Hopak)
300
He was the founder of the Russian Communist Party, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, and the first head of the Soviet State.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
300
This cold, treeless area along the northern edge of Russia has a layer of permafrost soil.
What is tundra?
300
This country north of Armenia has the same name as a southern U.S. state.
What is Georgia?
300
The radiation cloud from Chernobyl reached as far as this continent that we live on.
What is North America?
300
The Russian Matryoshka doll, also known as this, is perhaps the best-known symbol of Russia around the world.
What is nesting doll?
400
Three reasons that led to the 1917 Russian Revolution were the lack of peace, ___________, and land ownership.
What is bread? (or food stability)
400
Many people live west of the Ural Mountains because the climate of this large region to the east is not suitable for farming.
What is Siberia?
400
This country is home to the Uzbek people.
What is Uzbekistan?
400
The Soviet Union couldn't keep the explosion a secret, because high levels of radiation were detected in this country.
What is Sweden?
400
This area in eastern Ukraine has been the site of fighting between the Ukrainian military and Russian-backed rebels.
What is Donbas.
500
Stop stalling, and name this brutal Soviet leader that took over after Lenin.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
500
One reason President Putin would like to control Ukraine is to have more access to this large body of water for shipping and naval purposes.
What is the Black Sea?
500
This country can be found tucked between Estonia and Lithuania.
What is Latvia?
500
Cost related to the Chernobyl disaster are estimated at $300 thousand, million, billion, or trillion?
What is billion? (300,000,000,000)
500
In order to crush rebellion, Stalin forced Ukrainian farmers to hand over all of their grain, which led to a man-made famine known as this.
What is the Holodomor?