Oh crap I thought the question included The Gambler. FML

You didn't say full names...

major character from brothers karamozov includes pavel.

please read:

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

# 2 Major characters

* 2.1 Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov
* 2.2 Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov
* 2.3 Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov
* 2.4 Aleksey Fyodorovich Karamazov
* 2.5 Pavel Smerdyakov
* 2.6 Agrafena Alexandrovna Svetlova
* 2.7 Katerina Ivanovna Verkhovtseva
* 2.8 Zosima, the elder
* 2.9 Ilyusha

How can you not accept mute's answer (or mine)?

8. Name an ICBM currently in service, of any country.

Yahoo!/We'll meet again

Trident (5 pts) (US):
A.Ertbjerg
daer
kokiri
mattsey9
mexineil

Minuteman (2 pts) (US):
DrOldSchool
legend42

Jericho III (1 pt) (Israel):
kaidus

M45 (1 pt) (France):
TimeLady

Soyuz (1 pt) (Russia):
housenuts

Incorrect answers (8 pts):
Patriot: C-Dog, gusmahler, mute
all your base are belong to us: lsc1022
M1: OutKicked
Tomahawk: chymechowder

Drops (0 pts):
fleebrog, Jedi, Tom1975


Scores after round 8:

1. TimeLady -- 9
2. DrOldSchool -- 10
3. daer -- 14
4. legend42 -- 15
5. Tom1975 -- 19
6. fleebrog -- 20
7. kaidus -- 22
8. OutKicked -- 24
9. A.Ertbjerg -- 25
10. chymechowder -- 27
11. mexineil -- 28
11. mute -- 28
13. Jedi -- 29
14. mattsey9 -- 32
15. lsc1022 -- 34
16. C-Dog -- 35
17. kokiri -- 36
18. gusmahler -- 37
19. housenuts -- 38

wtf I said trident II

going by your earlier ruling anyone who just said trident obv meant trident I and is therefore incorrect.

How many tridents are in use?

This.

I also said Trident II btw

trident I isn't in use anymore

trident II is in use

Just trident seems fine to me.

this is the trident I and should not be correct

but if someone says trident and someone says trident II those should be grouped for peehs?

Its fine if you count both as correct but grouping them isn't imo. If the question was name a bird, eagle and bald eagle wouldn't be grouped.

If there was a trident II and a trident III in use then people should be asked to clarify their answer. If there is only one trident in use then I don't think it matters if people put the number or not.

9. Name a novel or novella by Aleksander Solzhenitsyn. (Books published separately are counted separately).

I guess no big Solzhenitsyn fans here. His August 1914 is my favorite novel.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
(Interestingly, this film stars Tom Courtenay, who also appeared in Dr. Zhivago).

The First Circle (2 pts):
daer
mattsey9

Cancer Ward (1 pt):
DrOldSchool

Matrenin Dvor (1 pt):
TimeLady

Correct answers not given:
none

Incorrect answers (4 pts):
Anna Karenina: Jedi (Tolstoy)
Book of Mormon: gusmahler
Eugene Onegin: fleebrog (Pushkin)
good night moon: lsc1022
Gulag: mute
Gulag Archipeligo: kokiri (not a novel)
The Gulag: A.Ertbjerg
The Gulag Archipelago: Tom1975 (not a novel)
The Oak and the Calf: Sketches of Literary Life in the Soviet Union: kaidus (not a novel)
War and Peace: C-Dog (Tolstoy)

Drops (0 pts):
chymechowder, housenuts, legend42, mexineil, OutKicked

Scores after round 9:

1. TimeLady -- 10
2. DrOldSchool -- 11
3. legend42 -- 15
4. daer -- 16
5. Tom1975 -- 23
6. OutKicked -- 24
6. fleebrog -- 24
8. kaidus -- 26
9. chymechowder -- 27
10. mexineil -- 28
11. A.Ertbjerg -- 29
12. mute -- 32
13. Jedi -- 33
14. mattsey9 -- 34
15. housenuts -- 38
15. lsc1022 -- 38
17. C-Dog -- 39
18. kokiri -- 40
19. gusmahler -- 41

wtf drops

Sorry, not specific enough. I don't think it's fair to the other players who were specific to accept them.

As for the missiles, I am pretty sure there is one version in operation for Trident and Minuteman, so I grouped them together. I'm just glad no one said the N. Korean ICBM, which I believe has not been tested successfully.

numbersix, what is your first name?

11. Name a person pictured below:

OK, I guess this one was a bit obscure, if you're not a Sovietophile like me. But there were two Americans I thought most people would recognize. The first picture is a red herring, I thought some of our European friends would recognize her (she has appeared in the Eurovision Song contest, I think).

Left to right, from the top:

Lena Katina, Russian pop star and half of singing duo Tatu.
General Zhukov, Commander of the Red Army and of the occupation of East Germany.
Dwight David Eisenhower (West Point)
Yuri Gagarin, first cosmonaut in space
Joseph Stalin
V.I. Lenin
Inessa Armand, Lenin's alleged mistress.
Kim Philby, double agent
Lavrenti Beria, NKVD (KGB) chief
Nadyezhda Krupskaya, Lenin's wife (her first name means "hope")
Gary Powers, shot down by the Soviets in 1960.

Stalin speaks



Yuri Gagarin (10 pts):
daer
DrOldSchool
housenuts
Jedi
legend42
mattsey9
mexineil
OutKicked
TimeLady
Tom1975

Lenin (2 pts):
C-Dog
fleebrog

Dwight David Eisenhower (1 pt):
chymechowder

Kim Philby (1 pt):
kokiri

Stalin (1 pt):
gusmahler


Incorrect answers (13 pts):
Boris Pasternak: mute
Boris Yeltsin: A.Ertbjerg
ouromov- the next strong man of russia: lsc1022

Drops (0 pts):
kaidus

Final scores:

1. TimeLady -- 20
2. DrOldSchool -- 21
3. legend42 -- 25
4. kaidus -- 26
4. daer -- 26
4. fleebrog -- 26
7. chymechowder -- 28
8. Tom1975 -- 33
9. OutKicked -- 34
10. mexineil -- 38
11. kokiri -- 41
11. C-Dog -- 41
13. gusmahler -- 42
13. A.Ertbjerg -- 42
15. Jedi -- 43
16. mattsey9 -- 44
17. mute -- 45
18. housenuts -- 48
19. lsc1022 -- 51

And the winner is TimeLady, who will receive a Vladimir Putin Poison Polonium Junior Spy® kit (don't tell Mom and Dad!) and a Carnival Cruise to the Gulag Archipelago.

Runner up DrOldSchool will receive an autographed 8X10 glossy of Gert Frobe and a CD of the Red Army Chorus Christmas Album.

And finally, for everyone's enjoyment:

Tatu - White Robe

I knew gagarin would sheep.

Also for next time passes are usually grouped and score however many people pass instead of zero. More of a strategic move and less of a freebie that way.

EDIT: even though I knew gagarin would sheep I still had to put him simply because he was awesome.

John.

I know but I wanted it to be a freebie. Encourages more people to play a difficult peehs.

Thanks all for playing.

wish I'd have known the freebie thing. Or put Stalin. Oh well, GG TL, #6

Ugh, I knew Ivan Denisovich but thought it would sheep big. I could have aced with that and used my pass on the Von Trapp. Or I could have not brain-farted on the Dostoevsky question...so close!

Though I also almost reached for Ethel Rosenberg for the pic of Lenin's mistress, but wasn't sure (checking, it actually does look a little bit like her).

Thanks NumberSix, gg TL