Nope
, I did in a short time. The first chance I scored 14 only because I got distracted and I wasn't watching properly,
I did it immediately again to score 15.
For those who need it the 15 answers, here is the list but before, my comment:
I'm working on ships and I called many times in the ex-USSR nations. The school level there is high and demanding, so don't get scorned if you don't know all the answers. I also added a short explanation next to many solutions:
1)
Crime and Punishment (two ways to answer right: either you are familiar with Dostoyevsky's works or you know the other
two books. BTW, using the name "Here and there again" probably reveals the dev loves Tolkien, 'cause it's "The Hobbit"'s
subtitle)
2)
To the stars by hard ways (same concept as #1, Star Trek and Star Wars are not Russian made, otherwise, if you read
Cyrillic, it's the sci-fi poster on the right, the one with the letters written in red, visible when Olga tries to distract Artem
before starting the last batch of questions. Of the five posters the only movie I saw so far is Solaris, a masterpiece, the
other fours are yet unknown to me. This is a good sample of how bad things were doing cold war. Both sides didn't exchange
anything, including art and culture, save few exceptions)
3)
Tchaikovsky (it's the only composer of the three)
4)
Za zdorovie (this one is the one I fumbled first time, silly me, I have
practised enough those words
)
5)
Jason (in Greece, in the port of Volos, where for the legend Jason started his quest, they have built a replica of his boat, as
many other things there are named after Jason and the argonauts)
6)
Cold War (now, here there is a generation gap, I think. It's an easy answer for all the people born before 1980 like me,
increasingly difficult the younger you are)
7)
Rasputin (Tzarina means Queen, it was Peter I the Great who elevated the rank of Tzar to that of Emperor in 1721. Only by
reading the three possible answers' name I got in the nick of time that the question was about the wife of the last Tzar
Nicolas II. And please know that one of the greatest rulers of Imperial Russia, Catherine II, had so many lovers that
probably with her all the three answers would be correct
8)
Stalin (as in point #6)
9)
Two dogs (do you remember Laika, the first mammal (a dog bitch) to go into orbit?)
10)
Yuri Gagarin (as in point #6, #8 and 9)
11)
Reaction (in old USSR technical schools were a must and they produced a lot of excellent engineers and physists, so for
them this is an easy question, it's not the same for all the rest of the world, I know. This is also true for the final four
questions)
12)
H2O
13)
Small astronomical body
14)
360 degrees
15)
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