Trivia Thread Resurrection

[frunk]

I got it with my second guess.  Volgograd was my first.

[Syt]

Volgograd is not correct.

[Caliga]

Donetsk?

[mongers]

Donetsk?

Yeah somewhere like that, I've read about the guy's story before, but won't google it, see if my memory works in a while.

[Caliga]

I'm thinking it's in or near Ukraine.  In the 19th century a lot of foreign investors were allowed to build factory cities there by the Imperial government.

[Maladict]

Yeah I'm pretty sure it's Donetsk.

[Syt]

Donetsk?

Correct

[The Brain]

Cal = nerd

[Caliga]

I swear I didn't cheat.

I figured it was in Ukraine due to what I said earlier, and remembered Donetsk used to be named Stalino which means 'Steel' (and I thought I also read that it wasn't named for Comrade Stalin, but for its steel works).

[DGuller]

I knew it was Donetsk, but only because I was familiar with details of Khrushchev's biography.

[Admiral Yi]

Looks like Cal has not.

John Paul Jones fought the Serapis in a ship named in honor of whom?

[mongers]

Looks like Cal has not.

John Paul Jones fought the Serapis in a ship named in honor of whom?

USS Led Zeppelin ?

[Admiral Yi]

No. 

[grumbler]

Looks like Cal has not.

John Paul Jones fought the Serapis in a ship named in honor of whom?

Ben Franklin's imaginary everyman.

[Admiral Yi]

correct