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Kazakhstan Trivia

From yurts to Baikonur, flex your Kazakhstan know-how and show you're the top steppe savant.

EXAMPLE QUESTIONS

Which Soviet cosmonaut launched in 1961 from Baikonur Cosmodrome, located in present-day Kazakhstan, to become the first man in space?

Yuri Gagarin

What is the name of the vast treeless grassland plain known for its extreme temperature swings that covers much of northern Kazakhstan?

Kazakh Steppe

What round, portable tent used by Kazakh nomads is traditionally covered with felt?

Yurt

Which dissolved federation did Kazakhstan declare independence from in December 1991?

Soviet Union