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   Message 31,259 of 32,813   
   Erland Sommarskog to Mark Brader   
   Re: RQFTCINO13 Final, Rounds 4,6: geogra   
   21 Jan 23 11:10:25   
   
   From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Mark Brader (msb@vex.net) writes:   
   > * Names of Russian Cities   
   >   
   > When Communism fell, the names of some Russian cities reverted   
   > back to their original pre-revolutionary names.  Here are three   
   > questions about some of those name changes.   
   >   
   > 7. Between 1935 and 1991 it was called Kuibyshev or Kuybyshev;   
   >    it is Russia's """6th-largest""" city and is located on the Volga   
   >    River in the southeastern part of the European part of Russia.   
   >    What is the """present""" name of the city?   
      
   Nizhny Novgorod   
      
   > 8. Yekaterinburg, Russia's """4th-largest""" city, located just east   
   >    of the Ural Mountains, was known by what name between 1924   
   >    and 1991?   
      
   Sverdlovsk   
      
   > 9. The city """now""" called Nizhny Novgorod is Russia's   
   >    """5th-largest"""; it's about 250 miles (400 km) east of Moscow,   
   >    and Andrei Sakharov was exiled here between 1980 and 1986.   
   >    Between 1932 and 1990 it was named after a writer who was born   
   >    there in 1868.  What was it called then?   
      
   Gorkyj   
      
   Seems like my answer to #7 was wrong. Remains to see if I'm mixed up   
   the names Gorkyj and Sverdlovsk.   
      
   > 15. The street names in the classic version of Monopoly are taken   
   >    from which real city?   
      
   Atlantic City, NJ.   
      
   > ** Final, Round 6 - Sports   
   >   
   > * Monopoly (yes, again)   
   >   
   > 10. On 2013-02-06 the Monopoly token in the shape of an iron was   
   >    officially retired.  What shape replaced it?   
      
   Cell phone   
      
   > 12. As alternatives to , four other new tokens were   
   >    proposed.  Name *any one* of them.   
      
   Cell phone   
      
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