RUSSIA AND THE REPUBLICS JEOPARDY

CHOOSE A CATEGORY CULTURE VOCAB TRANSCAUCASIA CENTRAL ASIA RUSSIA ALL

VOCABULARY 200 These mountains separate the Northern European and West Siberian Plains

Ural Mountains

VOCABULARY 400 Where the central government makes all important economic decisions.

Command economy

VOCABULARY 600 A Georgian dinner party

A supra

VOCABULARY 800 When long distances between places make communication and transportation difficult

Distance decay

TRANSCAUCASIA 200 What is the nickname for this region?

Mountain of Language

TRANSCAUCASIA 400 This republic was the first under King Tiridates III to convert to Christianity.

Armenia

TRANSCAUCASIA 600 Who controlled Transcaucasia from 1921 to 1991?

Soviet Union

TRANSCAUSASIA 800 These 3 republics make up this region

Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia

DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!! FOR 800 PTS What are the names of the capitals in this region? Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia

Yerevan Baku Tbilisi

CENTRAL ASIA 200 The Silk Road led people from which China to where?

Mediterranean Sea

CENTRAL ASIA 400 What is the Great Game?

Struggle of power of supremacy between Great Britain and the Soviet Union

CENTRAL ASIA 600 What is the main climate in this region?

desert

DOUBLE JEOPARDY FOR 600 PTS!! What is the name of the 2 major deserts in this area?

Kara Kum and the Kyzyl Kum

CENTRAL ASIA 800 What are the 5 republics that make up Central Asia?

Kazakhstan Turkmenistan Tajikistan Kyrgyzstan Uzbekistan

RUSSIA 200 This event happened in 1917

Russian Revolution

RUSSIA 400 This guy led the Bolshevik Revolution

Vladimir Lenin

RUSSIA 600 Where are the Tartars from?

Mongolia

RUSSIA 800 This person composed Swan Lake and The Nutcracker

Peter Tchaikovsky

ALL 200 What sea is shrinking yearly?

Aral Sea

ALL 400 How did the Soviet Union turn agriculture into an industry?

Collective Farms

ALL 600 This czar helped increase Russia’s size, power, and helped to modernize the country industrially.

Peter the Great

ALL 800 Person who came up with the Theory of Communism

Karl Marx (+200 pts- What book did he write?)

FINAL JEOPARDY What did Peter the Great say about St. Petersburg? And on what sea is located near?

FINAL JEOPARDY Window to the West Baltic Sea

CULTURE 200 This leader of Russia was ultimately the main cause of the collapse of the Soviet Union

Mikhail Gorbachev

CULTURE 400 Who was the leader of Russia during the Cold War?

Joseph Stalin

CULTURE 600 What does USSR stand for?

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

CULTURE 800 Who was the last czar of Russia?

Nicholas Romanov II