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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 |
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