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2 points per correct answer, 10 points if you get all four correct. Answer with a Spoiler tag in one post in this thread before noon EDT on Wednesday, August 27.

No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.



1. This church in Moscow's Red Square is commonly known as what saint's Cathedral?


2. What Yugoslav president (and former partisan leader during World War II) died on May 4, 1980?

3. What Stravinsky ballet, depicting a pagan ritual where a girl dances herself to death, provoked a riot during its premiere in Paris?

4. Who succeeded Vladimir Putin as president of Russia in May 2008?



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2 points per correct answer, 10 points if you get all four correct. Answer with a Spoiler tag in one post in this thread before noon EDT on Wednesday, August 27.

No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.



1. This church in Moscow's Red Square is commonly known as what saint's Cathedral?


St. Tetris

2. What Yugoslav president (and former partisan leader during World War II) died on May 4, 1980?

Tito Jackson

3. What Stravinsky ballet, depicting a pagan ritual where a girl dances herself to death, provoked a riot during its premiere in Paris?

Cloris Leachman Can Still Cut A Rug

4. Who succeeded Vladimir Putin as president of Russia in May 2008?

Boris Godunov


LFHP

Spoiler

1. This church in Moscow's Red Square is commonly known as what saint's Cathedral?
St Peter's?

2. What Yugoslav president (and former partisan leader during World War II) died on May 4, 1980?
Tito?

3. What Stravinsky ballet, depicting a pagan ritual where a girl dances herself to death, provoked a riot during its premiere in Paris?
Swan Lake?

4. Who succeeded Vladimir Putin as president of Russia in May 2008?
Putinsochpuppetiov Going for the humor pts

---Jay (Richard Nixon met Nikita Khrushchev at Moscow's opening of the American National Exhibition and had an impromptu "Kitchen Debate" in a model kitchen - but it wasn't until this many years ago that Nixon became 'toast' when he resigned his presidency - if you know how many years ago he resigned then you know the rest...)

MarleysGh0st wrote:2 points per correct answer, 10 points if you get all four correct. Answer with a Spoiler tag in one post in this thread before noon EDT on Wednesday, August 27.

No outside sources allowed. Just take your best guess.

Spoiler

1. This church in Moscow's Red Square is commonly known as what saint's Cathedral?
Basil's

2. What Yugoslav president (and former partisan leader during World War II) died on May 4, 1980?
Tito

3. What Stravinsky ballet, depicting a pagan ritual where a girl dances herself to death, provoked a riot during its premiere in Paris?
Hmm, two choices I can think of, The Firebird and The Rite of Spring. Unfortunately don't know much about either except the name. I will SWAG The Firebird. Sounds more deadly...

4. Who succeeded Vladimir Putin as president of Russia in May 2008?
Excellent question! I probably should know. Unfortunately no frellin' clue. Yuri the bear.

LookingForHumorPoints wrote:

1. This church in Moscow's Red Square is commonly known as what saint's Cathedral?


St. Tetris

LFHP

Now that's funny right there, I don't care who ya are!

By golly, I think I might have a sweep today.

Spoiler

1. This church in Moscow's Red Square is commonly known as what saint's Cathedral?

St Basil

2. What Yugoslav president (and former partisan leader during World War II) died on May 4, 1980?

Tito

3. What Stravinsky ballet, depicting a pagan ritual where a girl dances herself to death, provoked a riot during its premiere in Paris?

Rite Of Spring

4. Who succeeded Vladimir Putin as president of Russia in May 2008?

Medvedev

ANSWERS


1. This church in Moscow's Red Square is commonly known as what saint's Cathedral?


Saint Basil. It's more formally known as The Cathedral of Intercession of the Virgin on the Moat, but I can see why it's easier to call it St. Basil's.

2. What Yugoslav president (and former partisan leader during World War II) died on May 4, 1980?

Josip Broz Tito. An interesting discovery for me, while researching this question: During World War I, he was a draftee in the Austro-Hungarian army when he was wounded and then captured by the Russians, on the same front where my grandmother's family were civilians, suffering through the war.
It was during his time as a POW in Russia that Tito became a Bolshevik.

3. What Stravinsky ballet, depicting a pagan ritual where a girl dances herself to death, provoked a riot during its premiere in Paris?

The Rite of Spring a.k.a Le Sacre du Printemps. This is one of those questions that could get you in trouble on J!, for those who pluralized "Rites", but I let this one slide.

4. Who succeeded Vladimir Putin as president of Russia in May 2008?

Dmitry Medvedev. Tmitsss's "Mendelev" answer was close enough for half credit (but no bonus), and I also gave Annie half credit for knowing his first name. Full humor points credit for Putinsochpuppetiov.



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andrewjackson = 10
wintergreen48 = 10
jarnon = 10
jsuchard = 10
kroxquo = 10
T_Bone0806 = 10
TheConfessor = 10
themanintheseersuckersuit = 7
AnnieCamaro = 7
ulysses5019 = 6
Here's Fanny! = 6
plasticene = 6
SportsFan68 = 6
Catfish = 6
LookingForHumorPoints = 6 (I didn't get the Cloris Leachman answer, but the others were good!)
tanstaafl2 = 4
frogman042 = 4
NellyLunatic1980 = 4
megaaddict = 4
Rexer25 = 4
elwoodblues = 4

MarleysGh0st wrote:4. Who succeeded Vladimir Putin as president of Russia in May 2008?

Dmitry Medvedev. Tmitsss's "Mendelev" answer was close enough for half credit (but no bonus), and I also gave Annie half credit for knowing his first name. Full humor points credit for Putinsochpuppetiov.

I personally think Tskitishvili is just as close as Mendelev.

MarleysGh0st wrote:LookingForHumorPoints = 6 (I didn't get the Cloris Leachman answer, but the others were good!)

You must not pay a lot of (or any) attention to Dancing with the Stars.