2. JEOPARDY The Rise Of Russia

3. Categories 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 100 200 300 400 500 Early Russia More Russia More Russians Russians 100 200 300 400 500 Russian Mania Vocabulary

4. Who was Ivan III or Ivan the Great ? He was the Prince of the Duchy of Moscow who freed Russia from Mongol control after 1462.

5. What was Moscow? This was the city that was referred to as the “Third Rome”.

6. What was the Time of Troubles? This is the name given to the early 17 th century when the Russian nobles attempted to regain Russian control and after the death of Ivan IV.

7. Who were the Romanovs? ( get that gladiator off my back) This is the family Dynasty of Russia from 1613 until 1917 and the Communist execution of the Russian royal family?

8. Who were the Cossacks? These were the peasant adventurers with agricultural and military expertise recruited to settle new lands in Siberia and southern Russia.

9. Who was Michael Romanov I? He was the first Russian Romanov ruler.

10. Who was Peter I ( the Great) ? He was the Russian ruler who westernized Russia and expanded the country from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean.

11. What was St. Petersburg? This was the city that was dubbed the “ Window on the West” and the new capital city of Russia established in 1703 on the shores of the Neva River ad the Baltic Sea.

12. Who were the serfs? This was the Russian social group who lost more rights under the Russian rulers from Ivan III until Alexander II.

13. Daily Double “Don’t Choke!”

14. Who was Stepan Razin? He was the Cossack who led a rebellion of serfs in 1670 against the rule of the Russian Tsar.

15. What was Sweden and Charles XII? This was Peter the Great’s opponent in the Great Northern War 1700-1721.

16. What was Mathematics and Geometry ? These were the subjects that all Russian noble children had to learn before they could be married.

17. What was Tsar from Caesar and in (Germany – Kaiser)? This was the term given to the Russian rulers and was used from Ivan IV onward.

18. What was Poland? This was the country that elected weak rulers and each noble of their legislature ( sejm ) had veto power over major decisions which weakened the country so that it disappears completely in 1795.

19. Who was Emelian Pugachev? He was the Cossack leader who led a rebellion in 1774 in the name of Peter III and later claimed to be Peter III.

20. What was Bohemia? This was the name of what is now the Czech Republic and also signifies a type of freedom and defiance of authority.

21. Who was Catherine the Great ( Catherine II)? She was the Russian ruler who achieved a warm water port from conquered Ottoman territory and issued the Charter of the Nobility which further reduced the rights of Russian serfs.

22. What was the Crimea? This is the resort area along the Black Sea conquered by Russia and where later the Charge of Light Brigade occurs and Florence Nightingale gains her reputation.

23. What was the Russian Navy? This was the branch of the Russian military created by Peter the Great and copied from the English and the Dutch.

24. What was Alaska and later California? ( the Russian River in northern California ) This was the area explored and later claimed by Peter the Great and expanded on by Catherine the Great.

25. Daily Double “Don’t Choke!”

26. What was ( is) the Kremlin? This was the name for the Russian fortress or citadel that housed the Russian palace and later Red Square.

27. What was boyars? This was the name for Russian nobles.

28. What was the Obrok? This was the labor obligation of Russian peasants to their landlords or to the state enacted in the 18 th century.

29. Who was Ivan the Terrible or Ivan IV? He was the most infamous Russian Tsar who further weakened the power of the Russian nobles or boyars and who in a fit of rage killed his only heir.

30. What was a Multinational Empire ? This was the type of Empire that the text says existed in Russia until 1991.

31. What is the Caspian Sea ( tricky don’t you think?)? This is the largest lake in the world.

32. What is Lake Baikal ( sturgeon eggs = caviar) ? This is the deepest lake in the world with an average depth of 2440 ft. It holds 20% of the earth’s freshwater.

33. What was Siberia? This is the place where many Russian political prisoners are sent, especially during the Cold War.

34. Who were the Old Believers? This was another name for the dissident religious conservatives who were forced to move to southern Russia and Siberia.

35. What was metallurgical and mining industries? This was the type of industry encouraged by Peter the Great and utilized the huge deposits of iron ore in Russia.