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Mastermind 2016 - Robert Harris > Archangel > Flashcards

Archangel Flashcards

1
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“Death solves all problems - no man, no problem”

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Stalin

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2
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Beria’s bodyguard

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Papu Gerasimovich Rapava

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3
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Where is Rapava from?

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Mingrelia - NE shore of the Black Sea

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4
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Where is Beria’s house

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Vspolnyi Street

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5
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Minister for Internal Affairs

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Levrenty Pavlovich Beria

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6
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What word is used to refer to Stalin’s dacha

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Blizhny - Near

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7
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Hotel where Kelso interviews Rapava

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Ukrainia

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8
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Where is Stalin’s dacha

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Kuntsevo

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9
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Kelso’s full name

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Dr Christopher Richard Andrew Kelso - Fluke

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10
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Stalin’s full name

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Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin

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11
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Rapava’s matches

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Robotnik club - near the Dinamo stadium

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12
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What does Beria ask Rapava to look for on Stalin?

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A key

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13
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Note left behind by Beria

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ALARM

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14
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Rapava’s sentence

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Fifteen years hard labour, Kolyma territory

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15
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When did Rapava return to Moscow

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1969 - day of the moon landing

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16
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Where did Rapava work after prison?

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Engine sheds, Leningrad station

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17
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Where did Rapava’s son die

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Afghanistan - night ambush Mazr-i-Sharif

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18
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“To choose one’s victims, to prepare …”

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Stalin, in conversation with Kamenev and Dzerzhinsky

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19
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Chaperone for the conference

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Olga Komarova, Russian Archive Service (Rosarchiv)

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20
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What has Kelso been described as in a Sunday newspaper

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A battered Byron

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21
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Free newspaper being handed out outside symposium

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Aurora

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22
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Who wanted to buy the Party archive for $5m

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Hoover Institute

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23
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Who runs Aurora

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Vladimir Pavlovich Mamantov - eg KGB

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24
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How many delegates at the symposium

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91

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25
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What does Robotnik mean?

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Worker

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26
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What great forgery scandal does Adelmen compare Stalin’s notebook to

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Hitler Diaries

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27
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Quod volimus credimus libenter

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We always believe what we want to believe

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28
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Journalist

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RJ O’Brian - Moscow correspondent, Satellite News System

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29
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The foundations of empire are often occasions of woe. Their dismemberment, always

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Evelyn Waugh

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30
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What’s the symbol for a book that was secret until 1991

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c - slash

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31
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Kelso’s girlfriend when he was in Moscow

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Irina

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32
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Where is Irina now?

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Dental assistant in South Wales

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33
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Who writes about the rumours of Stalin’s notebook

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AA Yepishev

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34
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“medium machine”

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Cover name for Soviet atom bomb programme - Beria’s pet project

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35
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Who has written Yephishev’s entry in the Directory of Heroes of the Soviet Union

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Mamantov

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36
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Russian Intelligence Service

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SVR

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37
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Name of symposium

A

Confronting the past

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38
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Movies Stalin liked to watch

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Tarzan

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39
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Lousy dancer - like a cow on ice

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Khrushchev

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40
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Stalin’s daughter

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Svetlana

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41
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Why did Stalin hold Anna in solitary confinement

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Because she talks too much

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42
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Movie watched by Stalin, 8th December 1938, after signing death lists

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Comedy - Happy Days

43
Q

Nothing is more important to a nation than it’s …

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… history

44
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Painting of Stalin on the ramparts of the Kremlin

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Gerasimov

45
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Bust of Stalin

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Vuchtich

46
Q

Second version of Gerasimov painting misses out …

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Voroshilov

47
Q

Suvourin’s after shave

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Eau Sauvage

48
Q

Beria’s old house became embassy of …

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Tunisia

49
Q

Kelso’s alma mater

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St John’s

50
Q

Scholarship to …

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Harvard

51
Q

Programme Keslo went to Moscow under

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Students for Peace, 1980

52
Q

Kelso’s PhD thesis

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Power in the Land: The Peasantry of the Volga region 1917-22

53
Q

Boris Nikolaeovich …

A

Yeltsin

54
Q

Rapava’s daughter’s car

A

Lada

55
Q

Rapava’s daughter is studying …

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Law

56
Q

Soviet anthem being played in Rapava’s apartment

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Party of Lenin

57
Q

Rapava’s apartment complex

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Victory of the Revolution

58
Q

Uzbeki bandit machine gunned in the Bablyon

A

Tsexer

59
Q

Battle-cruiser shelling Winter Palace in 1917

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Aurora

60
Q

Kelso’s plane leaves …

A

Sheremetevo

61
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Who tells O’Brian that Kelso is looking for Stalin’s notebook

A

Adelman

62
Q

Moscow newspaper for young Westerners

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The eXile

63
Q

Who has bought an icon and is worried about smuggling it out

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Duberstein

64
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What magazine does Kelso buy to read on the plane

A

Der Spiegel

65
Q

Rapava’s daughter’s name

A

Zinaida

66
Q

Airline flying Kelso to NYC

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Delta

67
Q

Where has Rapava hidden the Stalin papers

A

In a toolbox

68
Q

Rapava’s son’s name

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Sergo

69
Q

Where does Zinaida work during the daytime

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GUM - Switchboard

70
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What else does Kelso find with the Stalin papers in Rapava’s garage

A

Gun - Makarov

71
Q

O’Brian’s car

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Toyota Land Cruiser

72
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Name of girl who writes the entries in the Stalin notebook

A

Anna Mikhailovna Safanova

73
Q

Magazine Anna Safanova’s photo appears in

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Ogonyok

74
Q

River in Archangle

A

Dvina

75
Q

Man who comes looking for Safanova on Stalin’s behalf

A

Mekhlis

76
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Stalin’s favourite brandy

A

Ararat

77
Q

Archangel founded by …

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Peter the Great

78
Q

Archangel’s port

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Severodvinsk - centre of nuclear sub construction

79
Q

Archangel named after

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Archangel Michael, the Warrior Angel

80
Q

What is there to be consulted at Archangel Railway Statiion

A

Radiation meter - 15 microrads or below is safe

81
Q

Road to Archangel from Moscow

A

M8

82
Q

“If you are afraid of wolves, keep out of the woods”

A

Stalin

83
Q

Satellite phone

A

Inmarsat

84
Q

Russia is owned by whoever has the biggest …

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… fists

85
Q

Rapava’s Rule No 1

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Never show them you’re afraid

86
Q

Rapava’s Rule No 2

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You’ve only got one friend in this world - Yourself

87
Q

Barman at the Robotnik

A

Aleksey

88
Q

Inmarsat is over the …

A

…Indian Ocean

89
Q

Stolovaya

A

Old-style workers cafe

90
Q

Safanova’s old school

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Maxim Gorky Academy - 1950

91
Q

Safanova was in the …

A

Komsomol

92
Q

Party’s candidate in last election

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Gennady Zyuganov - current Communist Party leader

93
Q

Headling on Aurora

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VIOLENCE IS INEVITABLE

94
Q

Title of Mamantov’s memoirs

A

I Still Believe

95
Q

Anna Safanova’s parents

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Mikhail and Vavara

96
Q

Name of company (Mamantov’s) that has acquired Beria’s old house

A

Moskprop

97
Q

Anna’s son adopted by …

A

The Chizhikovs

98
Q

Chizikhov

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Stalin’s pre-revolution alias - PA Chizikhov, 1911

99
Q

Passports found in Stalin Jrs hut

A

Norwegian (Bergen)

100
Q

Word at the top of documents in Stalin’s hut

A

Confession

101
Q

What did Lenin call the Tsarovich

A

The Living Banner

102
Q

How do Surovin and the soldiers get to Stalin’s hut

A

Snow plough

103
Q

Moscow station where Stalin gets off the train

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Yaroslavl

104
Q

Who shoots Stalin

A

Zinaida

Mastermind 2016 - Robert Harris (10 decks)

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