Q 01/05
A) Baku
B) Yerevan
C) Tbilisi
D) Moscow
Answer · why
Baku stayed his home until January 1990, when anti-Armenian violence there forced his family to flee.
Q 02/05
A) Rabinovich
B) Weinstein
C) Vainberg
D) Kasparyan
Answer · why
Weinstein was his Jewish father's surname; at twelve he took his Armenian mother's surname instead, Kasparov.
Q 03/05
A) Roosevelt
B) Eisenhower
C) Kennedy
D) Truman
Answer · why
Truman, whom Kasparov's father admired for standing up to communism; in Russian, Harry and Garry are pronounced the same way.
Q 04/05
A) Mikhail Botvinnik
B) Boris Spassky
C) Vasily Smyslov
D) Tigran Petrosian
Answer · why
Mikhail Botvinnik's school went on to produce three world champions, and he was also a pioneer of computer chess.
Q 05/05
A) Sicilian
B) French
C) Caro-Kann
D) King's Indian
Answer · why
The Sicilian let Kasparov sacrifice two pawns for counterplay, and Karpov, needing a win to keep his title, blundered and resigned.
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