1. JEOPARDY #1 RUSSIA

2. GEOGRAPHY MATTERS DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS - Curious or Spurious! LARGE & IN CHARGE InstitutionsTerminologyPot Luck 100 200 300 400 500

3. GEOGRAPHY MATTERS - 100 Lg. territory, but much of the land is unusableLg. territory, but much of the land is unusable Shortness of growing season

4. GEOGRAPHY MATTERS 100 What are two problems facing Russian agriculture?

5. GEOGRAPHY MATTERS - 200 It was sought by the czars who wished to make Russia into a naval power. Soviet desire for one prompted the US to ally itself with Iran.

6. GEOGRAPHY MATTERS 200 What is a warm-water port?

7. GEOGRAPHY MATTERS 300 Geographic area within Russia in which widespread ethnic separatism threatens the loss of republics and autonomous regions

8. GEOGRAPHY MATTERS - 300 What is the Caucasus?

9. GEOGRAPHY MATTERS - 400 Russian Republic full of ethnic separatist who’ve engaged in two wars with Russia

10. GEOGRAPHY MATTERS 400 What is Chechnya?

11. GEOGRAPHY MATTERS - 500 Things like Russian meddling in former Soviet republics like the Ukraine (Putin’s “meddling” in the election -- support for PM Yanukovich instead of popular challenger Viktor Yushchenko) leads to tensions with this area

12. GEOGRAPHY MATTERS - 500 What is the “near abroad”?

13. DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 100 Ethnic Russians are often in the minority in Russia’s various regions and republics.Ethnic Russians are often in the minority in Russia’s various regions and republics.

14. DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 100 What is CURIOUS?

15. DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 200 Modern political parties in the Russian Federation are highly ideological and are generally conservative vs. reform oriented.

16. DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 200 What is SPURIOUS?

17. DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 300 Most ethnic Russians are devout members of the Russian Orthodox Church.

18. DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 300 What is SPURIOUS?

19. DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 400 The Russian population is predominantly rural.

20. DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 400 What is SPURIOUS? (73% urban)

21. DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 500 NATIONALITY is a bit of a “sticky wicket” in Russia because the country has about fifty different ethnic groups.

22. DEMOGRAPHY MATTERS – CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 500 What is SPURIOUS? (over 100!)

23. Large and In Charge - 100 Khrushchev’s successor

24. Large and In Charge - 100 Who is Leonid Brezhnev?

25. Large and In Charge - 200 YURI ANDROPOV & KONSTANTIN CHERNENKO

26. Large and In Charge - 200 Who are Brezhnev’s two short- lived geriatric successors

27. Large and In Charge - 300 1st popularly elected President of Russia; stood on the tanks in the face of the 1991 attempted coup

28. Large and In Charge - 300 Who is BorisYeltsin?

29. Large and In Charge - 400 Current Russian Prime Minister, he’s Putin’s “pet”; elected President of the Russian Federation in 2008

30. Large and In Charge - 400 Who is DMITRY MEDVEDEV ?

31. Large and In Charge - 500 Two key terrorist acts which allowed Putin to further centralize power in the Russian presidency

32. Large and In Charge - 500 What are 1.The Beslan school attackThe Beslan school attack 2.The Moscow theater hostage situationThe Moscow theater hostage situation

33. INSTITUTIONS - 100 Institutional power center in USSR

34. INSTITUTIONS - 100 What is the POLITBURO?

35. INSTITUTIONS - 200 Upper and Lower houses of the Russian legislature

36. INSTITUTIONS - 200 What are the 1.DumaDuma 2.Federation Council?Federation Council?

37. INSTITUTIONS - 300 the Central State Planning Commission which managed the Soviet economy

38. INSTITUTIONS - 300 What is GOSPLAN?

39. INSTITUTIONS - 400 It exercises judicial review

40. INSTITUTIONS - 400 What is the Constitutional Court?

41. INSTITUTIONS - 500 1.Highest court with jurisdiction over civil and criminal law andHighest court with jurisdiction over civil and criminal law and 2. Highest court authorized to settle economic disputes Highest court authorized to settle economic disputes

42. INSTITUTIONS - 500 What are 1.The Supreme Court andThe Supreme Court and 2.The Supreme Arbitration Court?The Supreme Arbitration Court?

43. TERMINOLOGY - 100 Marx’s terms for workers and for owners of means of production & distribution of goods and services

44. TERMINOLOGY - 100 What are 1.PROLETARIAT &PROLETARIAT & 2. BOURGEOISIE ? BOURGEOISIE ?

45. TERMINOLOGY - 200 the tendency to look to a strong state for protection and problem-solving

46. TERMINOLOGY - 200 What is STATISM?

47. TERMINOLOGY - 300 sudden and drastic economic reform in tandem with democratic political reform

48. TERMINOLOGY - 300 What is “shock therapy”?

49. Just in Case - 400 Gorby’s programs: 1.OpennessOpenness 2. Economic liberalization

50. TERMINOLOGY - 400 What are 1.GLASNOST &GLASNOST & 2.PERESTROIKAPERESTROIKA

51. TERMINOLOGY - 500 1. individuals who are part of the Communist Party apparatus; 2. party members listed and, thus “named” for advancement within the system

52. TERMINOLOGY - 500 What are 1.ApparatchiksApparatchiks 2.nomenclaturanomenclatura

53. POT LUCK - 100 Call referendums, Call parliamentary elections, appoint judges, appoint the prime minister, dissolve the Duma issue decrees

54. POT LUCK - 100 What are the Russian presidential powers?

55. POT LUCK - 200 During 1917 Revolution meant “minority” but described the majority;meant “minority” but described the majority; meant “majority” but described minority

56. POT LUCK ! - 200 What are 1.MENSHEVIKS &MENSHEVIKS & 2.BOLSHEVIKSBOLSHEVIKS

57. POT LUCK - 300 Type of system set up by the Russian Constitution of 1993 and country whose system served as its paradigm

58. POT LUCK - 300 What are 1.semi-presidential (hybrid presidential-parliamentary) &semi-presidential (hybrid presidential-parliamentary) & 2.France?France?

59. POT LUCK - 400 Russian tradition which impedes East-West cooperation (i.e., Kosovo)

60. POT LUCK - 400 What is slavophile v. Westernizer?

61. POT LUCK 500 Russian oil co. which was forced into bankruptcy and essentially taken over by the state when CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky (richest man in Russia) was arrested

62. POT LUCK 500 What is Yukos?