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    Posted

    Impressive statistics Christophe!!

    Must admit Kholostyakov has an erm uncommon set of awards...

    To move on to the next question....

    QUESTION:

    Who am I? What did I do?

    Who was the famous person now associated with me?

    Good luck!

    Jim :cheers:

    Posted

    Could she be the famous actress Alla Nazimova ? :rolleyes:

    Alla Nazimova (Russian: Алла Назимова), born Mariam Edez Adelaida Leventon (Мириам Эдес Аделаида Левентон; May 22, 1879 ? July 14, 1945) was a Russian/American theater and film actress, scriptwriter, and producer. After a beginning of career in moscow and St Petersburg, in 1905, she moved to New York City.

    She was associated with Rudolf Valentino, whose career she greatly contributed.

    Ch.

    Posted

    Well done Ed!

    Yup Yup Yup! Correct answer - Link and all ;)

    I somehow thought she was obscure enough to avoid detection for a little bit longer. That places the ball in your court!

    Jim :cheers:

    Posted

    Ed and Jim,

    Great :jumping::jumping::jumping:

    Congrats to Ed!!!

    I'm more than happy Ed got this one...

    It will be a real challenge for the next one :P

    BTW, I'll we be in Eastern Siberia all of next week, without techical possibilities to answer...

    We'll see..

    Ch.

    Posted

    OK! :jumping: I have had this one ready for a while, hoping I'd win some day!!

    Happiness is a Warm Gun (with apologies to John Lennon)

    Sorry, I have been writing exams for my students: A ten-part question.

    Identify the following "warm guns" as to country and medal.

    Posted

    All ten, no partial credit. 100% or nothing. Which means partial answers will just help the others. All are, I think, some place on the forum and all belong under our title.

    Yes, I am vicious. My students think so too. :rolleyes:

    Posted

    Dear Ed,

    congratulations to your well deserved victory #6 :cheers: .

    Many thanks for your excellent question, but I also stuck at just a bit more than 50 % of your question :( .

    All these 10 fragments of medals are 100 % communist awards :unsure:?

    Best regards :beer:

    Christian

    Posted (edited)

    All these 10 fragments of medals are 100 % communist awards :unsure:?

    Yes, as I define things. Was it too hard?

    :rolleyes:

    If needed, I'll change the rules this weekend.

    Edited by Ed_Haynes
    Posted

    Nah not too hard.

    I stopped giving hints to my questions and only encourage the right answers when one is on track,

    Makes it more interesting to find the right answers - even if it takes a while.

    Jim :cheers:

    Posted

    Yeah, Jim, the problem is, I fear, that no one wants to offer guesses or partial answers at the very real risk of helping others. (How very non-Socialist? But, then, so is a contest??)

    Shall hint when I have any good reason to do so. :cheeky:

    Posted

    Well, to start:

    2 is the Medal for the Defense of Odessa.

    4 is the Jubilee Medal for 60 years of Armed Forces.

    8 is the Medal for Military Merit.

    10 is the Medal for 20 years of Red Army.

    Posted

    I?m not a gun type at all, so I?ll risk myself with these answers.

    #1 Tokarev

    #3 Sniper rifle

    #4 AK-47

    #8 Mosin-Nagant

    #9 PPSh-41 (my favorite model)

    #10 Mosin-Nagant

    Posted

    Interesting answers, Soviet. As I neither know (nor especially care) about the identity of the guns, I had not even included this as an extra-credit option (though the thought had crossed my mind). The focus was and is on the medals.

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