Saint Petersburg
🙂 Correct! Additionally, Saint Petersburg was called Petrograd from 1914 to 1924.
Moscow
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Novosibirsk
Nope, give it another shot!
Yekaterinburg
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Nizhny Novgorod
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Russia
What is the second-most populous country in Europe after Russia?
Germany
🙂 That’s correct — it’s Russia, then Germany. France, the United Kingdom, and Italy (3rd, 4th, and 5th as of 2015) have similarly-sized populations.
France
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United Kingdom
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Italy
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Spain
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What are the five largest countries in the world, in order from first to fifth (by land area)?
Russia, Canada, United States of America, China, Brazil
🙂 You’re right! See this top 10 list of the world’s largest nations, measured in square kilometers of land area.
Russia, Canada, United States of America, China, Australia
Oops — try again! Brazil is larger than Australia.
Russia, Canada, United States of America, Brazil, China
Nope, give it another shot! China is larger than Brazil.
Russia, Canada, China, United States of America, Brazil
No, the USA is larger than China.
Canada, Russia, United States of America, China, Brazil
Sorry, Russia is larger than Canada.
What Russian Black Sea city hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics? (Answers are in Cyrillic script)
Сочи
🙂 Correct! Sochi hosted the Winter Olympics in 2014.
Анапа
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Москва
Nope, give it another shot! (Moscow)
Саратов
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Самара
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