Russia and Central Asia

Question 1

________is the largest country on earth, spanning the continents of Europe and Asia.

Answer 1

Russia

Question 2

________ is the capitol of Russia.

Answer 2

Moscow

Question 3

______ is considered the cultural epicenter of Russia.

Answer 3

St. Petersburg

Question 4

Most of Russia has a ________ climate.

Answer 4

Subarctic

Question 5

True or False

Russia is known for it tropical forests.

Answer 5

False

Question 6

True or False

Uzbekistan’s, Turkmenistan’s, and Afghanistan’s vegetation is predominantly desert.

Answer 6

True

Question 7

True or False

Natural Gas is the primary resource from economic activity in Afghanistan.

Answer 7

False

Question 8

True or False

Russia comprised of many different ethnic groups.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

The __________ __________, which most geographers consider the border between Europe and Asia, run through Russia’s western portion.

Answer 9

Ural Mountain

Question 10

The primary religion in Russia is ___________ ___________.

Answer 10

Eastern Orthodox

Question 11

The area called_______ reaches from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean.

Answer 11

Siberia

Question 12

_______ remain two major exports from the Central Asia region.

Answer 12

Oil and cotton

Question 13

In 1812, the French emperor, ________ invaded Russia and successfully captured Moscow.

Answer 13

Napoleon Bonaparte

Question 14

The Ukrainian__________ power plant had a meltdown in 1986 resulting in deaths of 32 people and causing radiation contamination to spread over millions of acres of land where many thousands of people had to be evacuated.

Answer 14

Chernobyl

Question 15

True or False

Russia’s population is double the population of the United States.

Answer 15

False

Question 16

True or False

Northern Siberia is mostly tundra, a frozen treeless area.

Answer 16

True

Question 17

True or False

Sweden lost the Great Northern War, which was fought between the countries of Sweden and Russia.

Answer 17

True

Question 18

True or False

The Aral Sea is shrinking because the main feeding rivers, the Amu and Syr, have been largely diverted fro irrigation purposes.

Answer 18

True

Question 19

The large-scale movement of Siberian people began only after the completion of the ___________ in 1905.

Answer 19

Trans-Siberian Railroad

Question 20

During the Cold War, in 1979, the Soviet Union invaded _______________.

Answer 20

Afghanistan

Question 21

The tribe called the Rus founded the state that became Russia at the city of ___________.

Answer 21

Kiev

Question 22

During the 1200s,_____________ invaded parts of Russia and ruled these areas for several decades.

Answer 22

Mongols

Question 23

The USSR was governed according to____________ ideas.

Answer 23

communist

Question 24

The Soviet Union survived until economic and political problems made the government end in________.

Answer 24

1991

Question 25

True or False

The diverse population in Russia resulted from centuries of geographic growth and political change.

Answer 25

True

Question 26

True or False

The Soviet Union did not allow religious practice for nearly 20 years.

Answer 26

False

Question 27

True or False

Practicing Muslims make up between 50 and 55 percent of the population in Russia.

Answer 27

False

Question 28

True or False

Imperialists are political leaders who want to take over other countries to make their own country larger and more powerful.

Answer 28

True

Question 29

When the Bolsheviks gained control of the country in 1922, the new nation was called ______________.

Answer 29

the Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)

Question 30

As a response to Soviet invasion and religious restrictions, the ruling Taliban in Afghanistan created a government using the teachings of ___________.

Answer 30

Islam

Question 31

In 1917, the people of Russia became so tired of fighting and dying in World War I that they overthrew their king,___________________.

Answer 31

Tsar Nicholas II

Question 32

A year after the new Russian Provisional Government promised democratic elections and equal rights for all, it was overthrown by radical_________ led by Vladimir Lenin.

Answer 32

Bolsheviks

Question 33

_____________, the leader of Russia following Lenin’s death, completed Lenin’s process of creating a totalitarian state.

Answer 33

Joseph Stalin

Question 34

Following the Soviet withdrawal in 1989, Afghanistan fell into civil war and from this emerged an intolerant, extreme Islamic movement called the ___________.

Answer 34

Taliban

Question 35

True or False

Lenin based his ideas on the theories of communism put forward by Karl Marx in the mid-1800s.

Answer 35

True

Question 36

True or False

By the 1980s, relations between the United States and the USSR has gone from bad to worse as nuclear arsenals on both sides grew during the Cold War.

Answer 36

True

Question 37

True or False

The USSR and most of the rest of Central Asia based their economies on the principles of market capitalism .

Answer 37

False

Question 38

True or False

The Russian Federation adopted its constitution in 2003.

Answer 38

False

Question 39

In 1999, Russian Prime Minister___________ _________, later made president, oversaw the invasion of Chechnya after a Chechen terrorist attack within Russia.

Answer 39

Vladimir Putin

Question 40

Central Asia’s five former Soviet republics- _________,_______,_________,__________ and _________- have each established similar forms of government modeled on the system Russia created.

Answer 40

Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan 
Turkmenistan 
Tajikistan
Uzbekistan

Question 41

_______ has an average life expectancy of 49 and a literacy rate of less than 30 percent.

Answer 41

Afghanistan

Question 42

Throughout the 1800s and into the 1900s, Russia, Afghanistan, and Great Britain were involved in a tense dispute over boundaries known as ___________.

Answer 42

The Great Game

Question 43

With an extremely conservative Islamic government in control, Afghanistan became a headquarters for al-Qaeda and its leader, _______________.

Answer 43

Osama bin Laden

Question 44

___________ became the first democratically elected president of Afghanistan in 2004.

Answer 44

Hamid Karzai

Question 45

True or False

Afghanistan had access to many major bodies of water, such as oceans or seas.

Answer 45

False

Question 46

True or False

One of the few crops that grow well on Afghanistan’s limited farmland is the opium poppy which is used to produce several drugs.

Answer 46

True

Question 47

True or False

On September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda operatives launched a successful attack on the World Trade Center, in New York City, and the Pentagon, near Washington, D.C., using civilian aircraft as weapons.

Answer 47

True

Question 48

True or False

Dependence on foreign aid in Afghanistan has created a culture of compassion that makes economic development thrive.

Answer 48

False

Question 49

Afghanistan was first formed in the middle of the 1700s, when a leader, ________ ________ ________, united the Pashtun peoples.

Answer 49

Ahmad Shan Durrani

Question 50

In response to the September 11 attacks in New York and Washington D.C., U.S. and British forces began air strikes against targets in Afghanistan and began providing support for local resistance group called the ____________ ____________.

Answer 50

Northern Alliance