Transcript Russia JEOPARDY 04

JEOPARDY
Russia #4
BY THE
NUMBERS
OH< THE
PLACES 2
GO!
CURIOUS
Or
SPURIOUS?
BIG NAMES
WHAT
WOULD
YOU SAY?
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GUESS
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BY THE NUMBERS - 100
the number of Five Year Plans it
took for Stalin to achieve
industrialization of the Soviet
Union
BY THE NUMBERS - 100
What is 3?
BY THE NUMBERS - 200
Number of seats in the DUMA
and the percentage which are
PR and which are SMD
BY THE NUMBERS - 200
What is 450 and ALL are PR
since 2007!
BY THE NUMBERS - 300
Number of Prime ministers who
served under Yeltsin
BY THE NUMBERS - 300
What is 6?
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GAIDAR
CHERNOMYRDIN
KIRIYENKO
PRIMAKOV
STEPASHIN
PUTIN
BY THE NUMBERS - 400
143rd
BY THE NUMBERS - 400
What is the Russian
Federation’s rank on
Transparency International’s
(2011) Corruption Perceptions
Index
BY THE NUMBERS - 500
• fraction of Duma votes required
for formal accusation to impeach
the Russian president
• fraction of FEDERATION
COUNCIL votes required to
remove the president from office
BY THE NUMBERS - 500
What is 2/3 and 2/3?
OH, THE PLACES 2 GO! - 100
Where Russia fought and lost
at asymmetrical warfare (their
Vietnam)
OH, THE PLACES 2 GO! - 100
What is Afghanistan?
OH, THE PLACES 2 GO! - 200
• 1.) First Soviet satellite and
2.) First three Soviet republics
to say “Bye, ya’ll” to the Soviet
Union
OH, THE PLACES 2 GO! - 200
What are
1. Poland &
2. The Baltics – Latvia,
Lithuania, and Estonia?
OH, THE PLACES 2 GO! - 300
Under President Viktor Yushchenko,
this former Soviet Republic has
persistently irritated the Kremlin with
its ORANGE REVOLUTION and its
efforts to move out of Russia's sphere
of influence and to become more
closely integrated with the West,
including seeking to join Nato.
OH, THE PLACES 2 GO! +- 300
What is the Ukraine?
OH, THE PLACES 2 GO! - 400
Three former Soviet Republics
which joined the EU and
NATO in 2004
OH, THE PLACES 2 GO! - 400
What are Latvia, Lithuania, and
Estonia?
OH, THE PLACES 2 GO! - 500
1. Former Soviet Republic
where Russians have CIS
peacekeeping troops &
2. where they have interfered
with a separatist movement
in this region
OH, THE PLACES 2 GO! - 500
What are
1. Georgia and
2. Abkhazia?
CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 100
• Stalin’s PURGES were the
biggest cause of the
leadership problem faced by
the Red army at the outset of
WWII.
CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 100
What is CURIOUS?
Big Names - 200
• The OCTOBER REVOLUTION
(the Bolshevik takeover)
actually took place on Nov. 17,
1917.
CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 200
What is CURIOUS?
CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 300
• Ownership of PRIVATE
PROPERTY was a criminal
offense in Soviet Russia.
CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 300
What is CURIOUS?
CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 400
Russia’s main parties have failed to
open their policy-making &
candidate selection process to
ordinary citizens; parties are
vehicles designed to serve the
interests of party leaders or actual
“cults of personality.”
Big Names - 400
What is CURIOUS?
CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 500
Russia cut gas supplies to the
United States by 20%;
Gazprom called the dispute as
strictly commercial, but it’s
probably political.
CURIOUS or SPURIOUS? - 500
What is SPURIOUS?
BIG NAMES - 100
He first wrote about history as
class warfare and communism
as the wave of the future in
THE COMMUNIST
MANIFESTO in 1848.
This BIG NAMES - 100
Who is Karl Marx?
BIG NAMES - 200
The Polish labor union
movement which arose in the
shipyards and led the way out
of Communism
BIG NAMES - 200
What is SOLIDARITY?
BIG NAMES - 300
Religious leader (from Poland)
who helped ease the Soviet
Union on down the road to
oblivion
BIG NAMES - 300
Who is Pope John Paul II
BIG NAMES - 400
controlled by the state and its
chairman, Dmitry Medvedev, is
Russia's president-elect.
BIG NAMES - 400
What is GAZPROM?
BIG NAMES - 500
the belief that history is the product of
class struggle; and obeys the
Hegelian philoos. of history which
views truth as the product of history
(class struggle NOT Zeitgeist — the
"Spirit of the Time"), thus truth
passes through various moments,
including the moment of error, which
shapes it
BIG NAMES - 500
What is DIALECTICAL
MATERIALISM?
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? - 100
40 million
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? - 100
What is the number who died in
order for Stalin to complete
industrialization?
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? - 200
The media and the oligarchs
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? - 200
What are two groups which
Putin has “cracked down” on in
order to solidify his power?
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? - 300
It exacerbated the Brezhnev
regime’s most pressing
problem – the economy!
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? - 300
The arms race –
Nuclear and conventional
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? - 400
KUKLI
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? - 400
What is NTV’s popular satirical
puppet show which Putin
yanked off the air?
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? - 500
One of two Balkan countries
(one with a separatist region
and the other a separatist
state itself) which illustrate that
the Russian position depends
upon whose ox is gored
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY? - 500
What are Serbia & Montenegro?
ANYBODY’S GUESS - 100
Center of Soviet and Russian
government in Red Square
ANYBODY’S GUESS - 100
What is the Kremlin?
ANYBODY’S GUESS - 200
Three names for the same city - Russia’s famed “Window on
the West” built by Peter the
Great
ANYBODY’S GUESS - 200
What are:
St. Petersburg
Petrograd
Leningrad
ANYBODY’S GUESS - 300
44 but they are not all used in
all of the six Slavic languages
ANYBODY’S GUESS - 300
What is the number of
characters in the Cyrillic
alphabet?
ANYBODY’S GUESS - 400
Site of democratic protests
which preceded those in
Eastern Europe; brutally
crushed by the nation’s regime
in part because of
embarrassment due to the fact
that Gorbachev was visiting
ANYBODY’S GUESS - 400
What is Tiananmen Square?
ANYBODY’S GUESS - 500
Shortly after he was confirmed
as prime minister, Putin gave
the Russian Army one week to
oust the Chechen separatists
from this neighboring Russian
province, which Chechen
rebels had invaded.
ANYBODY’S GUESS - 500
What is Dagestan?