1. 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.

2. 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

3. A peasant who is bound to the land.

4. 100
What is a serf?

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

6. 200
What is Eurasia?

7. 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.

8. 300
What is the Cold War?

9. Information that deliberately tries to influence opinion.

10. 400
What is propaganda?

11. Religious image used by Orthodox Christians .

12. 500
What is an icon?

13. Ground that is frozen throughout the year.

14. 100
What is permafrost?

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

16. 200
What is the Volga?

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

18. 300
Who are the Bolsheviks?

19. A government that controls public and private life.

20. 400
What is totalitarian?

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

22. What is the Cyrillic Alphabet?
500
What is the Cyrillic Alphabet?

23. Russian president who increased executive power in the 2000s.

24. 100
Who is Vladimir Putin?

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

26. 200
Who is Joseph Stalin?

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

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

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

30. 400
Who is Leo Tolstoy?

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

32. 500
Who is Boris Yeltsin?

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

34. 100
What is the tundra?

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

36. 200
What is Moscow?

37. 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.

38. 300
What is Siberia?

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

40. 400
What is the Black Sea?

41. 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.

42. 500
What is Chechnya?

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

44. 100
What is Caesar?

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

46. 200
What is Lake Baikal?

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

48. 300
What is mining?

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

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

51. 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.

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