Suddenly Sochi Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Black Sea

Sochi was founded in 1896 but was first a Russian outpost from 1838. It became a town in 1917. Sochi sits at the foot of the Caucasus Mountains between the rivers Mamaika and Kudepsta. The Black Sea was originally called the Inhospitable Sea (Pontos Axeinos) before colonization by the Greeks, at which point it was the Hospitable Sea (Euxeinos Pontos).

Answer: 43 35' 07" N, 39 43' 13" E

The incorrect latitude and longitude coordinates are for these Olympic cities-- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Lake Placid, NY, USA; Sydney, Australia. These are either Olympic cities before or after the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.

Answer: Tsentralny District

The Central (Tsentralny) Sochi District is the heart of Sochi and includes many of its fine hotels, restaurants, and shopping centers. It sees very heavy tourist traffic in the summer. The other districts named are not in Sochi, but are in Moscow.

Answer: Lazarevsky District

This District of Sochi is 65 kilometers of coastline along with 1744 sq. km of area. It includes many small villages.

Answer: Khostinsky District

Khostinsky is located south-east from Central Sochi. The incorrect answers are some of the Administrative Districts of St. Petersburg, Russia. Akhun Mountain offers a panoramic view of Sochi and even as far as Turkey on very clear days from its 700 meter height. There is also a 100 foot observation tower that people may use on top of the mountain.

Answer: Adlersky District

The Adlersky District of Sochi includes the Sochi International Airport, the Adler train terminal, and the major infrastructure for the 2014 Sochi Olympics at Imeretinskaya Lowland, and the Krasnaya Polyana mountain cluster. The incorrect answers are villages or suburbs of Sochi.

Answer: Discovery World Aquarium

The 6,000 square meter Sochi Discovery World Aquarium is the largest aquarium in Russia and has thirty aquariums with five million liters of water. It has both fresh and salt water tanks. The incorrect answers are three of the biggest aquariums in the world. Georgia Aquarium is in Atlanta, U.S.A.; Oceanogrāfic of the City of Arts and Sciences is in Valencia, Spain; and the Aquarium of Genoa is in Genoa, Italy.

Answer: The Feat for Life Memorial

The incorrect answers are other tourist destinations in Sochi. The Anchor and Cannon is a memorial for the victory of the Russian Army over the Ottomans in the Russian-Ottoman War of 1828-1829. The Zavokzalny War Memorial is a memorial to Sochi soldiers who died in WWII, and a cemetery for more than 2,000 of them.

The Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin Monument dates from 2008 and is a sculpture by Israeli Frank Meisler.

Answer: Stalin

Miron Merzhanov, the Soviet chief architect, converted a merchant's estate which had been stolen by the Bolsheviks into Stalin's Summer Residence. It now houses a museum of Stalin related material as well as a waxwork of him. Local legend has the ghost of Stalin haunting this house.

Answer: Humid subtropical climate

Sochi's climate is very mild and is similar to the climate of Louisiana, Alabama and Georgia in the US. It is the climate often found in the southeast area of each continent, as well as inland China and the US. It usually occurs from latitudes 25 through 40 north.

Many Russians were attracted to Sochi to help them deal with various medical problems as it was thought Sochi's spas could heal their ailments.