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Multiple Choice City Quiz – Vostok Station
Can you answer these multiple choice questions about Vostok Station, Antarctica?
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Last updated: March 17, 2025
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| First submitted | March 17, 2025 |
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1. What country currently runs Vostok Station?
Russia
Chile
Argentina
Poland
2. What country claims the portion of Antarctica that Vostok lies in?
South Africa
Australia
the United Kingdom
New Zealand
3. When was Vostok founded?
1911
1947
1957
1978
4. Around how many people usually live in Vostok station in the summer?
30
45
60
90
5. Vostok is the second southernmost permanent research station. Which is the southernmost?
Mirny Station
McMurdo Station
Novolazarevskaya Station
Amundsen–Scott Station
6. What was Vostok named after?
"Vostok was named after Vostok, the lead ship of the First Russian Antarctic Expedition captained by Fabian von Bellingshausen. The Bellingshausen Station was named after this captain (the second ship, Mirny, captained by Mikhail Lazarev, became the namesake for Mirny Station)."
A type of now extinct seal
A nearby mountain
A ship
A politician
7. What was found 4,000 metres (13,000 ft) below Vostok?
Antarctica's largest subglacial lake
an old diesel submarine
Antarctica's largest cave system
one of the world's oldest volcanoes
8. In 1959 a scientist attacked another with an ice ax. What happened?
This caused chess to be banned in all Soviet Antarctic stations
one had used up the month's freshwater supply
one had locked the other outside all night
one had stolen the other's lunch twice in a row
one had beaten the other in a game of chess
9. Which of these records does Vostok hold?
−89.2 °C (−128.6 °F)
Lowest humidity ever recorded
Highest average sunshine hours per day
Most snow in one location in one month
Lowest reliably measured temperature
10. Which of these scientific activities is common in Vostok?
Supercooling magnets
Light reflecting to measure continental drift
Penguin rearing and domestication
Ice core drilling
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