1. RUSSIA AND THE REPUBLICS JEOPARDY

2. CHOOSE A CATEGORY CULTURE VOCAB TRANSCAUCASIA CENTRAL ASIA RUSSIA ALL

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

4. Ural Mountains

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

6. Command economy

7. VOCABULARY 600 A Georgian dinner party

8. A supra

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

10. Distance decay

11. TRANSCAUCASIA 200 What is the nickname for this region?

12. Mountain of Language

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

14. Armenia

15. TRANSCAUCASIA 600 Who controlled Transcaucasia from 1921 to 1991?

16. Soviet Union

17. TRANSCAUSASIA 800 These 3 republics make up this region

18. Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia

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

20. Yerevan Baku Tbilisi

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

22. Mediterranean Sea

23. CENTRAL ASIA 400 What is the Great Game?

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

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

26. desert

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

28. Kara Kum and the Kyzyl Kum

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

30. Kazakhstan Turkmenistan Tajikistan Kyrgyzstan Uzbekistan

31. RUSSIA 200 This event happened in 1917

32. Russian Revolution

33. RUSSIA 400 This guy led the Bolshevik Revolution

34. Vladimir Lenin

35. RUSSIA 600 Where are the Tartars from?

36. Mongolia

37. RUSSIA 800 This person composed Swan Lake and The Nutcracker

38. Peter Tchaikovsky

39. ALL 200 What sea is shrinking yearly?

40. Aral Sea

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

42. Collective Farms

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

44. Peter the Great

45. ALL 800 Person who came up with the Theory of Communism

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

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

48. FINAL JEOPARDY Window to the West Baltic Sea

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

50. Mikhail Gorbachev

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

52. Joseph Stalin

53. CULTURE 600 What does USSR stand for?

54. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

55. CULTURE 800 Who was the last czar of Russia?

56. Nicholas Romanov II