Multiple Choice City Quiz – Yakutsk

Can you answer these multiple choice questions about the city of Yakutsk?
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Last updated: March 15, 2025
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1. The nearest 100k+ city is how far away from Yakutsk?
Blagoveshchensk is ∼1200km away
<500km
500-1,000km
1,000-5,000km
5,000+km
2. Yakutsk was originally called Lensky fortress, named for which river?
Yangtze
Lena
Amur
Yenisey
3. Yakutsk is on which bank of the river?
Nizhny Bestyakh, the town on the Eastern bank, has less than 4,000 people
West
East
Both
4. Platon Oyunsky, killed during the Great Purge, was a local what?
Yakutsk Airport and the Sakha Theatre are named after him
General
Cosmonaut
Writer
Sportsman
5. Has climate change increasing the temperature been a positive change for the city?
Permafrost melting causes thermokarst, a type of irregular terrain
Yes, it has been a positive change
No, it has been a negative change
6. Local attraction ________ Kingdom is named for what geographical feature?
Yakutsk is the largest city in permanent permafrost
Permafrost
Mountain
Glacier
Taiga
7. Yakutsk has the only temir komuz museum in the world. What is a temir komuz?
It is a type of Jew's harp (although is indeed Turkic and not Jewish)
a dish
a tree
an instrument
an animal
8. Winter is considered to last how many months in Yakutsk?
3
5
7
9
9. The Yakut people and language are what?
Turkic
Inuit
Slavic
Sinitic
10. Yakutsk has recently suffered from air pollution due to what?
Factory disasters
Increased traffic
Wildfires
Unregulated coal burning
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2 Comments
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Level 83
Mar 15, 2025
6/10 nice one

You somehow got 10 questions out of it so good job!

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Level 84
Mar 15, 2025
Seems fun to choose cities to fill out the map haha

And yeah it's fun learning about a random place, and trying to pick out the parts that are interesting but still maybe guessable for others