Culture, Economy and Society

Economy, Science and Society

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The name of the currency of Kazakhstan, the tenge, comes from which old word?
Which offshore oil field in the north of the Caspian Sea, discovered in 2000, is among the biggest finds of recent decades?
The Caspian Pipeline Consortium line, opened in 2001, carries oil from the Tengiz field in Kazakhstan to which Black Sea port?
Which natural resource accounts for the largest share of Kazakhstan's exports?
Which country leases the Baikonur Cosmodrome from Kazakhstan under an agreement that runs to 2050?
In which year did the first metro line open in Almaty?
Which border crossing between Kazakhstan and China hosts a dry port and a free trade zone on the New Silk Road?
What is the purpose of the National Fund of Kazakhstan, created in 2000?
Which international scholarship programme, created in 1993, sends Kazakh students abroad to study and requires them to return?
Which title is given to the head of the executive power in a region, city or district of Kazakhstan?
Which cable car in Almaty takes visitors to a hill with a television tower and a view of the city?
Which geologist, who lived from 1899 to 1964, was the first president of the Kazakh Academy of Sciences?
Who was the first Kazakh cosmonaut, who flew to the Mir space station in 1991?
Which traditional wrestling sport of the Kazakhs is performed standing with a belt grip?
What is the custom of zheti ata in Kazakh society?
Which medieval mausoleum near Taraz, built of fired brick with decorated terracotta, is linked with a love story?
Which city in East Kazakhstan is named after the Soviet physicist who led the atomic bomb project?
Which holiday is celebrated in Kazakhstan on 1 May?
What was the basis of the traditional Kazakh economy before the twentieth century?
Which crop covers the largest area of Kazakhstan's farmland, mainly in the grain belt of the northern steppe?
In 1934 the first university of Kazakhstan, now named after al-Farabi, was founded in which city?
Which industrial city near Karaganda, on the Nura River, is home to the country's largest steel plant, founded in the 1950s?
Which town in the Pavlodar region, with huge open-cast coal mines, is the site of some of the largest coal-fired power stations in Kazakhstan?
Which city hosted the Winter Universiade in 2017?
Which Caspian fish, found in the Ural River and the Caspian, is the source of the most prized black caviar?

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