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Review for Mr. Cook's Geography class
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1
Who were the main target of the genocide in Bosnia in the 1990s?
Catholics
Orthodox Christians
Jews
Muslims
2
What major mountain chain of Western Europe also extends into Austria and Slovenia?
Alps
Urals
Carpathians
Sudetes
3
What river is known as the "national river of Russia"?
Dnieper
Vistula
Volga
Don
4
What body of water separates Scandinavia from the Baltic States?
Baltic Sea
North Sea
Black Sea
Mediterranean Sea
5
The Soviets brutally crushed a democratic revolt in what country in 1956?
Czechoslovakia
Romania
Hungary
Poland
6
Which crumbling country provided the highest quality competition for the 1992 Dream Team?
Soviet Union
Austria-Hungary
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
7
Poland, Lithuania, Sweden, Austria & Hungary have all been major powers in history. True/False
False
True
8
Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania are member states of what sub-region?
Scandinavia
Baltic States
Balkans
Caucasus
9
What German composer who lived mostly in Austria wrote "Ode to Joy," which is the E.U. anthem?
Johann Strauss
Ludwig van Beethoven
Johann Sebastian Bach
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
10
West Slavic languages use what alphabet?
Hieroglyphic
Cyrillic
Latin
Greek
11
What name's given to the series of protests/revolutions against Communist dictators in 1989-90?
Spring of Societies
Summer of Countries
Winter of Discontent
Autumn of Nations
12
What region between Lithuania and Poland is owned by Russia, as a naval base on the Baltic Sea?
Kamchatka
Kaliningrad
Crimea
Caucasus
13
Great composers including Mozart and Beethoven found a home in what Austrian capital?
Budapest
Vienna
Prague
Bratislava
14
Islam's existence in the Balkans is a legacy of what Empire that ruled the region until WWI?
Mughal
Byzantine
Mongol
Ottoman
15
Who was the US President who oversaw the official end of the Cold War in 1991?
George H.W. Bush
Ronald Reagan
Richard Nixon
Bill Clinton
16
Lech Walesa won a Nobel Peace Prize for helping to bring about democracy in what country?
Poland
Romania
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
17
What river flows through Russia and Ukraine on its way to the Black Sea?
Don
Dnieper
Vistula
Volga
18
Because Eastern Europe was poorer than Western Europe in the 20th Century, it gained what name?
3rd World
Bobby's World
A Whole New World
2nd World
19
The old cities of Buda and Pest were combined in order to form what country's modern capital?
Ukraine
Hungary
Austria
Czech Republic
20
The "Miracle on Ice" was a US hockey victory over the Soviets in which Olympics?
1980
1988
1984
1976
21
Drazen Petrovic, Vlade Divac, and Toni Kukoc were the first big European stars in what sport?
Basketball
Soccer
Baseball
Hockey
22
What was the purpose of the Berlin Wall?
Guard against American invasion
Prevent people from leaving the Soviet zone of control
Decorate the edge of Soviet territory
Prevent West Germans from coming to the East
23
Which of these countries is not considered a leading producer of hockey talent?
Bulgaria
Russia
Czech Republic
Sweden
24
What Serbian leader of Yugoslavia violently tried to prevent the country from falling apart?
Vladimir Putin
Drazen Petrovic
Slobodan Milosevic
Vojislav Kostunica
25
Which alphabet has more characters?
Latin Alphabet
Cyrillic Alphabet
26
What body of water is east of the Balkans, separating it from the Caucasus?
Mediterranean Sea
Red Sea
Black Sea
Caspian Sea
27
The classical music piece, the "1812 Overture," celebrates Russia's defeat of what invader?
Napoleon
Genghis Khan
Tamerlane
Adolf Hitler
28
Which state of former Yugoslavia carried out the worst genocides in Europe since World War 2?
Serbia
Slovenia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Croatia
29
Which country split into TWO new countries in the 1990s?
Germany
Czechoslovakia
Soviet Union
Yugoslavia
30
Sarajevo was the site of genocide in the 1990s. It is the capital of what modern country?
Slovenia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Serbia
Croatia
31
Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian are in what sub-group of languages?
South Slavic
West Slavic
North Slavic
East Slavic
32
Which country was not part of Yugoslavia?
Montenegro
Slovenia
Macedonia
Slovakia
33
The Catholic/Orthodox split generally coincided with the east-west split of what empire?
Russian
Roman
Greek
Ottoman
34
In what year did the Soviet Union collapse?
1991
1989
1979
1985
35
What was the Soviet equivalent of the CIA? Vladimir Putin was an officer within it.
Stasi
KGB
Perestroika
Gestapo
36
Vladimir Lenin created what country in 1917?
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
East Germany
Ukraine
37
What Soviet cosmonaut was the first person in space?
Vyacheslav Molotov
Vaclev Havel
Leonid Brezhnev
Yuri Gagarin
38
What was the name of the program to rebuild Europe after World War 2?
Stalin Plan
MacArthur Plan
Eisenhower Plan
Marshall Plan
39
What was "Stalin's Grass" or "Stalin's Lawn"?
Poor quality food provided to Eastern Europeans in the 1960s
Agricultural projects ordered by the Soviet dictator
Steel spikes to harm people escaping East Berlin
Land mines along the border between Austria and Hungary
40
What is the newest country in Europe?
Belarus
Kosovo
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Slovenia
41
What was the name of the 1st satellite launched into space by the Soviet Union?
Glassnost
Scud
Perestroika
Sputnik
42
Which country's dictator was the only one killed in the revolutions of 1989-91?
East Germany
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Romania
43
Vojislav Kostunica beat Slobodan Milosevic in elections in what year?
1989. Milosevic was then arrested.
1991. Milosevic was then arrested.
2000. Milosevic was then arrested.
2007. Milosevic was then arrested.
44
Polish, Czech, Slovak and Serbian are in what language sub-group?
North Slavic
South Slavic
East Slavic
West Slavic
45
What country split into FOURTEEN countries in the 1990s?
Germany
Yugoslavia
Soviet Union
Czechoslovakia
46
What is a primary determining factor for what alphabet is used by South Slavic languages?
Economic Status
Political Party
Religion
Personal Preference
47
Erich Honecker of what country seemed like the only one to not realize Communism was crumbling?
Hungary
Poland
East Germany
Soviet Union
48
What former Soviet Socialist Republic did Russia invade in 2014?
Ukraine
Moldova
Romania
Belarus
49
The Danube, the Don, and the Dnieper Rivers all flow into what body of water?
Mediterranean Sea
Black Sea
Caspian Sea
Baltic Sea
50
What is the longest and largest river in Poland?
Danube
Volga
Dnieper
Vistula
51
What capital of Greece is known as the birthplace of democracy?
Athens
Sparta
Thermopylae
Skopje
52
The Adriatic coastal region of the Balkans gives its name to what breed of dog?
Samoyed
Dalmatian
Labrador
Bernese
53
Nadia Comaneci was a star athlete who defected to the US in the Cold War.What sport was she in?
Basketball
Gymnastics
Track and Field
Tennis
54
What is the longest river in Europe?
Volga
Danube
Rhine
Vistula
55
What was the typical length of economic plans forced on Eastern Europe by the Soviet dictators?
5 Years
1 Year
30 Years
10 years
56
What major German river then flows through the Balkans on its way to the Black Sea?
Rhine
Danube
Vistula
Elbe
57
What military alliance intervened in the Yugoslav Civil War to try to stop the genocides?
NATO
Arab League
Commonwealth of Independent States
Warsaw Pact
58
What event allowed Americans and Soviets to go head-to-head in the midst of the Cold War?
Olympics
World Series
Academy Awards
Super Bowl
59
East Slavic languages use what alphabet?
Latin
Hieroglyphic
Greek
Cyrillic
60
What body of water is west of the Balkans, separating it from Italy?
Adriatic Sea
Aegean Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Black Sea
61
In what year was the Berlin Wall torn down?
1985
1979
1991
1989
62
The "Eastern Bloc" name came out of what 20th Century event that shaped East European society?
World War I
Cold War
Spanish Flu
Yugoslav Civil War
63
Most languages of Eastern Europe are members of what family of languages?
Latin/Romance
Slavic
Germanic
Uralic
64
Which country was not part of Yugoslavia?
Romania
Croatia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Serbia
65
By land area, Russia is the world's largest country. What is its capital?
Kiev
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Stalingrad
66
What composer wrote "The Nutcracker," "Swan Lake," and the "1812 Overture"?
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Johann Sebastian Bach
Ludwig van Beethoven
67
What is the name of the peninsula between the Adriatic Sea, Aegean Sea, and Black Sea?
Caucasus
Balkans
Scandinavia
Baltic States
68
What region on the Black Sea did Russia announce they had annexed in 2014?
Kaliningrad
Balkans
Crimea
Siberia
69
Which country is NOT in the Balkans region?
Greece
Germany
Bulgaria
Serbia
70
Who was the 1st American in space?
Deke Slayton
Alan Shepard
Neil Armstrong
Gus Grissom
71
What branch of Christianity is the most common in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and the Balkans?
Protestantism
Catholicism
Orthodox
72
"One death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic." What Soviet dictator said this?
Mikhail Gorbachev
Nikita Khrushchev
Joseph Stalin
Boris Yeltsin
73
Like much of Northern Europe, what branch of Christianity is the most common in Scandinavia?
Catholicism
Protestantism
Orthodox
74
Serbian leaders were the first Europeans convicted of what charge since the Nazis in the 1940s?
Mass Murder
War-making without a permit
Crimes against Humanity
Terrorism
75
What ended the friendship between sports stars Drazen Petrovic and Vlade Divac?
The Berlin Wall
Steroid Use among Eastern European athletes
Collapse of the Soviet Union
Yugoslav Civil War
76
What name did Winston Churchill give to the divide between east and west Europe?
Iron Curtain
Copper Cubicle
Berlin Wall
Steel Barrier
77
What president of Russia desires to rebuild "greater Russia"(essentially the old Soviet Union)?
Dmitri Medvedev
Joseph Stalin
Vladimir Putin
Mikhail Gorbachev
78
Which country split into SEVEN new countries in the 1990s?
Yugoslavia
Czechoslovakia
Germany
Soviet Union
79
During the Cold War, what was the name of the secret police force in Communist East Germany?
Stasi
KGB
Red Shirts
Gestapo
80
What branch of Christianity is the largest in Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, and Austria?
Protestantism
Catholicism
Orthodox
81
The far-northern countries of Sweden, Norway, and Finland make up what sub-region?
Caucasus
Scandinavia
Balkans
Baltic States
82
What Soviet leader oversaw the collapse of the Communist Bloc and Soviet Union?
Joseph Stalin
Mikhail Gorbachev
Boris Yeltsin
Nikita Khrushchev
83
The Volga River empties into what body of water--east of the Black Sea?
East Sea
Aegean Sea
Baltic Sea
Caspian Sea
84
The Velvet Revolution toppled the Communist dictator of what country?
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia
85
What mountain chain is the traditional boundary between the European and Asian parts of Russia?
Carpathian Mountains
Alps
Sudetes
Ural Mountains