Choose a category and point value. You will be given the answer. 7th Gr. Social Studies Ch. 15: RUSSIA Jeopardy! Choose a category and point value. You will be given the answer. You must give the correct question. Click to begin.

Easy Vocabulary Harder Vocabulary Famous Names Where am I? Grab Bag 100 Points 100 Points 100 Points 100 Points 100 Points 200 Points 200 Points 200 Points 200 Points 200 Points 300 Points 300 Points 300 Points 300 Points 300 Points 400 Points 400 Points 400 Points 400 Points 400 Points 500 Points 500 Points 500 Points 500 Points 500 Points

A peasant who is bound to the land.

100 What is a serf?

A term used to refer to a single continent made up of Europe and Asia.

200 What is Eurasia?

A conflict between the U. S. and U. S. S. R A conflict between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. after WWII that never developed into open warfare.

300 What is the Cold War?

Information that deliberately tries to influence opinion.

400 What is propaganda?

Religious image used by Orthodox Christians .

500 What is an icon?

Ground that is frozen throughout the year.

100 What is permafrost?

The longest river in Europe, which flows through European Russia.

200 What is the Volga?

A group of revolutionaries who took control of the Russian government in 1917.

300 Who are the Bolsheviks?

A government that controls public and private life.

400 What is totalitarian?

The official writing system of Russia. DAILY DOUBLE!! The official writing system of Russia.

What is the Cyrillic Alphabet? 500 What is the Cyrillic Alphabet?

Russian president who increased executive power in the 2000s.

100 Who is Vladimir Putin?

Cruel leader of the Soviet Union who set up a totalitarian government and had millions of his political enemies executed.

200 Who is Joseph Stalin?

Czar of Russia from 1682 to 1725 who tried to modernize Russia, make Russia more European and reorganized Russia’s government.

Who is Peter I (or, Peter the Great)? 300 Who is Peter I (or, Peter the Great)?

Russian author of the epic novel War and Peace, which greatly influenced Gandhi.

400 Who is Leo Tolstoy?

Russian leader after the fall of Communism whose “shock therapy” plan was supposed to establish a market economy quickly.

500 Who is Boris Yeltsin?

This is a vast, treeless plain in far northern Russia with long, harsh winters and short summers.

100 What is the tundra?

Capital city of Russia, where you can visit Red Square.

200 What is Moscow?

Huge expanse of flat land in central and north central Russia which is home to many of Russia’s natural resources…yet they cannot be reached due to their remote location.

300 What is Siberia?

Warm-water sea which borders far Western Russia, and which was gained for Russia as a result of war victories under Catherine the Great.

400 What is the Black Sea?

A largely Islamic region in southwestern Russia; the people here declared their independence from Russia in 1991, but Russia refused, and violence there continues to this day.

500 What is Chechnya?

The word ‘czar’ comes from this other word/name.

100 What is Caesar?

Visit this lake in Eastern Russia – it’s the deepest in the world, and home to adorable nerpas!

200 What is Lake Baikal?

Type of industry which has harmed Russia’s environment the most.

300 What is mining?

Russia is now in the process of changing from a ______ economy to a _______ economy.

What is from a command economy to a market economy? 400 What is from a command economy to a market economy?

First Russian leader to be called czar; he earned a not-so-nice nickname because he murdered hundreds of aristocrats and killed his eldest son.

Who was Ivan the Terrible? (Ivan IV) 500 Who was Ivan the Terrible? (Ivan IV)