Soviet Soviet & Eastern Block Quiz

[Christian Zulus]

Dear Dan,

congratulations to your victory #5 and for achieving the ranks of the "honourable answerers"

Best regards

Christian

[Hauptmann]

Dear Dan,

congratulations to your victory #5 and for achieving the ranks of the "honourable answerers"

Best regards

Christian

Dear Christian,

Many thanks my friend. As far as my next question... although I've been off for two days I've still not had much time or brain power to come up with something I feel is really good. I have one in reserve but fear it may be too easy. So the question for now is should I hold off a few more days and do it right or should I go ahead with this one and hope for the best?

Let me know and I'll go from there.

Thanks!

Dan

[Christian Zulus]

Dear Dan,

maybe the easy one ....

Best regards

Christian

Dear Christian,

Many thanks my friend. As far as my next question... although I've been off for two days I've still not had much time or brain power to come up with something I feel is really good. I have one in reserve but fear it may be too easy. So the question for now is should I hold off a few more days and do it right or should I go ahead with this one and hope for the best?

Let me know and I'll go from there.

Thanks!

Dan

[Christophe]

Yes, Dan, let's go for the easy one !!!

Cheers.

Ch.

[Ed_Haynes]

After recent questions, I think we have earned an easy one as a holiday gift?

[Hauptmann]

Hi all,

Okay, the concensus seems to be to go with the one I have. Again please don't judge me on this one as at least I feel someone is going to nail this right off the bat. But, here goes, my holiday gift to one and all:

What am I?

Who did I belong to?

Why was my owner famous?

Name some awards my owner earned.

I hope it's not super, super simple... but I do hope it is easy enough to give everyone a bit of a break during the holidays.

Good luck to all!

Dan

[JimZ]

What am I?

Part of the aircraft denoting kills.

Who did I belong to?

Col. Alexander 'Sasha' Pokryshkin

Why was my owner famous?

WW2 Soviet Ace with 59 kills to his name

Name some awards my owner earned.

Aleksandr Pokryshkin was, in addition to his three Hero of the Soviet Union golden stars, awarded four Orders of Lenin, Order of the October Revolution, four Orders of the Red Banner, two Orders of Suvorov (2nd class), two Orders of the Red Star, a number of other medals, and foreign orders, such as the USAAF (US Army) Distinguished Service Medal.

Links to full write up and images:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Ivanovich_Pokryshkin

http://www.elknet.pl/acestory/pokri/pokri.htm

Jim

Edited December 20, 2007 by JimZ

[Christian Zulus]

Dear Jim,

congratulations to your victory #12

In my opinion, Pokryshkin had been by far the greatest tactical genius in fighter-aviation during WW II .

He had been the first hero to get a HSU #3 (s/n. 1) - as early, as the 19th of august 1944.

He flew most of his GPW-career a US-made midengined "Air-Cobra".

I am happy, to have obtained years ago the German edition of Pokryshkin's memoirs - excellent book .

Here two photographs of Col. & Marshal Pokryshkin:

Best regards

Christian

[Hauptmann]

Hi Jim,

You are indeed the winner! Sorry for the delay but I've been at work on a closing shift and had court work before that. Just got back in and this is the first chance I've had to get on and confirm this. So now it's over to you for the next question.

http://mig3.sovietwarplanes.com/mig3/pokryshkin.html

Dan

[JimZ]

Thanks for your congratulations. That kill board is indeed almost one of a kind!

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Christophe,

I am away in Russia as of the 27th till the 10th January. I can offer you the following options:

a) give you guys a break till the 10th when I will be honoured to post the first question on the new Soviet Quiz threadfor 2008;

b) put forward another question which I hope wil be answered by the 26th (and if not I will pass on the solution to another member); or

c) pass on the question to someone else.

Its entirely up to you which alernative to go for and although I would go for A) giving everyone time to concentrate on family matters, Christmas and holidays, as well as taking time to relax before coming back to the quiz.

Let me know what you prefer.

Jim

Edited December 21, 2007 by JimZ

[Ed_Haynes]

As things may slow down a lot with the holidays, "A" seems a good option? Others??

[Christian Zulus]

As things may slow down a lot with the holidays, "A" seems a good option? Others??

"A" seems also for me a good option - let's go on with the new quiz after our orthodox x-mas .

Best regards

Christian

[Christophe]

Hi Jim and all,

I'm OK with the A option. This will give us a break!!!

It will give me the opportunity to "close" the present Quiz, and open the new 2008 one, where Jim will be the first one to post a question. Great!!!

Cheers.

Ch.

[JimZ]

Ok by me. I'll be in Russia till the 10th January so assuming that I manage to get away from my obligations there, and indulge in the hobby, I'll try to come back with a question or two that are hopefully based on something new that I may learnt.

All the best and Christophe.... who would have ever thought how this thread would have taken off and is indeed, now orbiting. Well done, not only for its success but also for the fact that it makes us research and learn things that would have otherwise remained unknown to us.

Jim

[Christian Zulus]

Final results of number of good answers in the

1st series of Christophe's "Soviet & Eastern Block Quiz"

Nb of good answers :

* 35 : Christian (Zulus)

* 31 : Christophe

* 12 : Frank (Knarf) & Jim (JimZ)

* 11 : Bryan (Soviet)

* 8 : Simon (Red Threat)

* 6 : Auke (Ferdinand), Belaruski, Carol I & Ed (Haynes)

* 5 : Dan (Hauptman)

* 4 : Wild Card

* 3 : Andreas (Alfred), Ivan (Piramida) & Kim (Kimj)

* 2 : Chuck (in Oregon), Gerd (Becker), Jan (vatjan) & Order of Victory

* 1 : Charles (Hunyadi), Darrell, Daredevil, Dave (Navy FCO), Dudeman, Filip (Drugo), Rick (Stogieman) & Steen (Ammentorp)

Best regards

Christian

[Ed_Haynes]

Absolutely right, Jim (and enjoy your trip!). We need to pause at the end of the year and at the end of this generation of the quiz to remind ourseleves how much we have learned thanks to our comrades here. Whether we answer right or not (or, like me, often don't even HAVE A CLUE, or a guess), we always learn.

Thanks, Christophe and all!

And . . .

[Christophe]

Thanks guys !!!

I agree that I did not expect such a successful thread when I launched it.

But, again, its success is THANKS TO ALL OF YOU !!!!

Cheers.

Ch.

[Ferdinand]

Thanks from me too; although I usually don't have a clue what the answers are, the quiz is really interesting, so thanks everyone for your participation.

Ed: nice, appropriate 'front humor' poster by the way.

Auke

[Christophe]

Hi to all,

Before I definitely close this first edition of the Quiz (Seasons 1 & 2 ), here is an updated version of the Summary.

Summary #4

Here are all the topics dealt through our questions and answers of this little Quiz.

Are shown below :

* Subject / question dealt - Number of the post where has been asked the question.

Awards / Orders & Medals

* GDR - Title Hero fo the GDR - #153

* GDR - Order of Karl Marx - #359

* India - Ashoka Chakra awarded to Soviet citizens - #131

* Mongolia - Medal Cosmonaut of the MPR - #110 & #601

* Russia - Order of Merit for the Country - #441

* SSR Georgia - Order of Red Banner of Labour - #222

* USSR - Honorary Revolutionary Weapons and early awards of the RSFSR - #874 & #1693

* USSR - Order of the Red Banner of Labour of the RSFSR - #1618

* USSR - Order of Glory - #1582

* USSR - Order of Lenin - #88

* USSR - Order of Stalin - #243 & #1228

* USSR - Order of Suvorov - #1341

* USSR - Orders with Serial Number 001 - #585 & #1366

* USSR - Medal for Bravery - #170

* USSR - Medals for Defense / Capture / Liberation - #25

* USSR - Medal 800 Years of Moscow - #1697

* USSR - Krupskaya Medal of Merit in Teaching and Education - #625

* Varia - Medals with guns - #1764

* Varia - Medals with tractors - #1934

Personalities (Awards)

* France - Marcel Lef?vre's awards - #186

* Mongolia - S?khbaatar, Dandzan & Choibalsan - #1242

* USSR - Vasily Blyukhner - #1366

* USSR - Vice-Admiral Georgi Kholostyakov - #1341, #1345 & #1744

* USSR - Marshal of Aviation Vladimir Sudets - #1464

* USSR - Marshal Dmitri Yazov - #1804

* USSR - Marshal Georgi Zhukov's awards - #2, #1366, #1836 & #1965

* USSR - Highest ranking Soviet officer to receive a Partisan medal - #1522

* USSR - Recipients #1 of some of the USSR major orders - #585 & #1366

* USSR - Recipients of several classes of major awards of GPW - #1388

Personalities (Identification)

* Austria - Commander Alexander L?hr - #1131

* China - Li Zensheng - #1279

* Egypt - Hakim Abdel Amer - #278

* Germany - Margot Honecker - #1957

* Germany - Ernst Reuter - #1460

* Germany - Ruth Werner - #1954

* Germany - Konrad Wolf - #1926

* Germany - Klara Zetkin - #30

* Hungary - Cserny J?zsef & the Lenin Boys - #2016

* Hungary - Bela Kun - #1910

* India - Subadar Birta Sing Gurung - #290

* Poland - Michał Rola-Żymierski - #1435

* Romania - Henri Coanda - #1119

* Romania - Maj-General Mihail Lascar - #928

* Romania - Hermann Oberth - #1059

* Russia - Valery Gergiev - #352

* Russia - Pyotr Nesterov - #854

* Russia - Admiral Fedor Ushakov - #81

* UK - Winston Churchill - #780

* UK - Baroness Clementine Spencer-Churchill - #329

* Ukraine - Lt General Mykola Sabilyi - #1846

* USA - Henry Morgenthau Jr - #932

* USSR - Sultan Amet-Khan - #574

* USSR - General Aleksei Antonov - #1477

* USSR - Commander Vasili Arkhipow - #1065

* USSR - Marshal Hovhannes Bagramyan - #2096

* USSR - Georgiy Baidukov - #1004

* USSR - Snr-Lieutenant Vicktor Belenko - #1095

* USSR - Lavrentyi Beria - #944 & #2067

* USSR - Alexander Buchin - #426

* USSR - Marshal Semyon Budyonny - #743

* USSR - General Vassily Chuikov - #20

* USSR - Yevgeni Dolmatovski - #1271

* USSR - Vasily Grosman - #1266

* USSR - Lt-General Kuzma Gurov - #718

* USSR - Lt-General Ignatii Karpezo - #236

* USSR - Mikhail Katukov - #1396

* USSR - Alexandra Kollontai - #376 & #2005

* USSR - Marshal Ivan Konev - #66

* USSR - Maria Konnenkova - #1753

* USSR - Nikita Khrushchev & friends - #623

* USSR - General Yakov Kreiser - #695

* USSR - Nadezhda Krupskaya - #1128

* USSR - Igor Kurchatov - #979

* USSR - Lenin, Trosky and Stalin - #920

* USSR - Nikolay Masalov - #504

* USSR - Pyotr Masherov - #752

* USSR - Vsevolod Merkulov - #252

* USSR - Sergey Mikhalkov & family - #878

* USSR - Maria Oktiabrskaia - #1141

* USSR - Lieutenant Os'kin - #1196

* USSR - Lyudmila Pavlichenko - #1050

* USSR - Colonel Alexander Pokryshkin - #2132

* USSR - Zina Portnova - #490

* USSR - Nina Potsova - #302

* USSR - Alla Pugachova - #267

* USSR - Mammad Amin Rasulzade - #2051

* USSR - General Aleksandr Rodimtsev - #735

* USSR - Dmitry Rogachev - #1467

* USSR - General Isaac Salzmann - #533

* USSR - Svetlana Savitskaya - #1046

* USSR - Professor Otto Schmidt - #564

* USSR - Ivan Serov - #1441

* USSR - Marshal Boris Shaposhnikov - #772

* USSR - Georgi Shpagin - #249

* USSR - Konstantin Simonov - #1307

* USSR - Igor Spassky - #1734

* USSR - Maj-General Nikolai Stakhanov - #986

* USSR - Marshal Joseph Stalin - #732 & #1200

* USSR - Fedor Tokarev - #1303

* USSR - General Matvei Vainrub - #708

* USSR - Andrei Zhdanov - #1455

* Yugoslavia - General Milan Nedic - #1418

* Yugoslavia - General Konstantin Popovic - #671

* Yugoslavia - Marshal Josip Tito - #364, #603 & #1226

Historical events

* 1917 - October Revolution - #2009

* 1942 - Last defender of Brest Fortress - #847

* 1942 - Operation Uranus - #955

* 1943 - Battle of Neretva - #1411

* 1945 - Capture of Vienna - #1345

* 1961 - Berlin Wall - #1825

* 1967 - Incident submarine K-3 Leninsky Komsomol - #1703

* 1969 - Czechoslovakia Hockey Riots - #515

* 1977 - Soviet rockets explosion in DDR

* 1979 - Visit of French President in Berlin - #891

* 1986 - Chernobyl helicopter pilots - #1979

* 1989 - The last ... of the Berlin Wall - #2122

Architecture / sites

* Baku - Monument to Kirov - #386

* Berlin - Check Point Charlie - #164

* Berlin - First Soviet Parade Tribune - #1327

* Berlin - Palast der Republik, Honecker's office - #1313

* Minsk - Monument to Victory - #618

* Moscow - Central Museum of the Great Patriotic War - #518 & #648

* Moscow - Fountain of the Friendship of Nations - #1233

* Moscow - Lenin's Mausoleum - #1948

* Moscow - State Kremlin Palace - #522

* Moscow - VDNKh Exhibition Center - #1536

* New York - USSR Pavilion at the 1939 International Exhibition - #205

* Prag - Monument to Stalin - #537

* St Petersburg - Statue of Lenin - #46

* Stalingrad - Fountain "Playing Kids" - #230

* Stalingrad - Great Patriotic War Memorial - #60 & #995

* Sutjeska - Tjeniste Monument to Battle of Sutjeska - #665

* Vienna - Monument to the Red Army - #553

* Zhukovski - Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute (TsAGI) - #1636

Aircraft, weapons, military equiment...

* Cruiser Lazar Kaganovich - #1502

* IAR-95 "Spey" fighter - #955

* KV-1 tank - #826

* Mig 15 - #896

* Obyekt 279 tank - #940

* Sergei Mironovich Kirov tank - #1105

* TB-3 & I-16 aircraft - #1035

* Tupolev 144 - #1204

Other topics

* BARTCC (Berlin Air Route Traffic Control Center) - #1498

* Dogs & Military Leaders of WW2 - #648

* Dogs in Space - #1879

* Gagarin's car - #460

* GAZ - Gorkovsky Avtomobilny Zavod - #1568

* Iran, Serbia, Venezuela & International Community - #915

* Ministers of War of the USSR - #1585

* Operation Solo - #804

* Protocols of Zion - #1817

* Psychotronic weapons - #1082

* Red Army's ranks (Senior Marshal of Communications Troops &Senior Marshal of Engineering Troops) - #581

* Soviet Forces in East Germany - #1489 & #1592

* Soviet defectors - #1165 & #1614

* SOXMIS (Soviet Mission in West-Germany) - #902

* Stalin's Hammer & Sickle telephone - #2090

* Fyodor Vidayev + Kursk submarines - #1285

* "The Watch That Went To Moscow" - #309

Ch.

[Guest Rick Research]

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