From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > Mark Brader:   
   >> >    D1. The Soviet Union and the United States were the first   
   >> >        two countries to have citizens in space.  In 1978 Vladimir   
   >> >        Remek became the first citizen of a third country into space.   
   >> >        What country?   
   >>   
   >> Czechoslovakia.  4 for Erland.  3 for Dan Blum and Joshua.   
   >   
   > Incidentally, a multiple-choice version of this question came up   
   > on yesterday's episode of ABC's version of "The Chase".  Both the   
   > contestant and the chaser correctly picked Czech from the choices,   
   > although one of them assumed the country was the Czech Republic.   
      
   Oh-oh, a small brainfart there. Actually, I think my first thought   
   was the same, but an internal alarm fired and corrected me.   
      
   By the way, I did not know the answer, but Remek sounds like a very   
   Czech name to me. Or for that matter a Slovak.   
      
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