[profprofessorson]

Are you Izvestia?

[agamal007]

Are you Argumenty i Fakty?

[PinkWorld]

Are you a Russian newspaper?

[avoran]

Are you Pravda? (nobody has asked whether or not it has to be current publication )

Congratulations, avoran! It took you 9 questions to uncover the Truth!

Pravda (Russian: Правда, "Truth") is a Russian political newspaper associated with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union [CPSU] and, following the dissolution of the USSR, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation [CPRF].

The newspaper began publication in 1903 as a journal of arts, literature and social life, with no political orientation. Pravda became an organ of the Central Committee of the CPSU beginning in 1912 and quickly emerged as a leading Soviet newspaper after the October Revolution. During the Cold War, Pravda was well known in the West for its pronouncements as the official voice of the CPSU.

After the collapse of the USSR, Pravda was sold off by Russian President Boris Yeltsin. The CPRF acquired the newspaper in 1997 and established it as its official mouthpiece. Pravda still functions from the same headquarters in Moscow where it was published during the Soviet era, albeit with significantly diminished staff, readership, and impact. During the Soviet era it was a daily newspaper but today it publishes three times a week.


A note on the Questions and Answers:

Question 5: Are you an essential component on society in general? (See also Question 20: Are you something most people would use?)
Certainly not in the West but during the height of its influence, Pravda sold millions of copies per day in the Soviet Union (compared to the current print run of just one hundred thousand copies).


Wikipedia link

спасибо всем!

[profprofessorson]

Man! That was going to be my next guess, bummed I went with Izvestia first! I remember this joke from my history class - Pravda ("truth") has no news, and Izvestia ("news") has no truth.

Congrats avo and thx workerbee for the riddle!

[avoran]

thanks prof (and workerbee)!

the top issue is announcing the death of Stalin "whose immortal name will ever live in the hearts of the Soviet people".

I remember this joke from my history class - Pravda ("truth") has no news, and Izvestia ("news") has no truth.

Very good!

Man! That was going to be my next guess, bummed I went with Izvestia first! I remember this joke from my history class - Pravda ("truth") has no news, and Izvestia ("news") has no truth.

Congrats avo and thx workerbee for the riddle!

Prof, I signed off as soon as you said Izvestia. That was my next one and I was so sure it was the answer. I kicked myself for not asking. And now I find it was NOT the answer.

Goes to show, one never knows.

[sherlockx]

avoran asked 9 questions to find the Matryoshka and gets 45 wrz$. 48 questions in total results in workerbee receiving 240 wrz$.
avoran is invited to be the guest for the next round by sending me a pm with the subject for approval

[avoran]

Round 37

Have fun!

Questions & Answers:

1. (Neon12) Are you alive? - No
2. (profprofessorson) Would you fit inside a microwave? - A simple yes/no answer is not appropriate
3. (canmus) Are you an object? - A simple yes/no answer is not appropriate.
4. (agamal007) Are you a place? - No
5. (workerbee) Were you a real or fictional human being? - No
6. (tango08) Are you an animal? - No
7. (Pericles) Are you a gas? - No
8. (canmus) Do you come in different sizes? - Yes
9. (PinkWorld) Are you a concept or an idea? - No
10. (agamal007) Are you an emotion or natural phenomenon (weather, biological, geological etc.)? - No
11. (profprofessorson) Are you naturally occurring? - No
12. (workerbee) Am I likely to encounter you in daily life? - A simple yes or no answer is inappropriate
13. (canmus) Are you synthetic? - A simple yes or no answer is not possible
14. (Sanpaca) Are you inflatable? - No
15. (bob zea) Are you a stuffed animal? - No
16. (agamal007) Are you unique (e.g. located only in one country)? - No
17. (workerbee) Are you mass-produced? - Yes
18. (profprofessorson) Did you come into use 1980 or later? - Yes
19. (canmus) Are you found in a home? - Yes
20. (PinkWorld) Are you an electronic device? - No
21. (Pericles) Are you ice? - No
22. (bob zea) Are you a water filter system? (for making tap water safer to drink) - No
23. (agamal007) Do you need electricity to work/function? - Yes
24. (canmus) Are you found in the kitchen? - A simple yes/no answer is not appropriate.
25. (workerbee) Do you serve one specific purpose? - A simple yes/no answer is debatable.
26. (tango08) Are you an iron? - No
27. (profprofessorson) Are you related to the Internet? - A simple yes/no answer is not appropriate.
28. (bob zea) Are you a fiber optics cable/installaton? - No
29. (Pericles) Are you a mobile phone? - No
30. (Sanpaca) Do you heat food up? - No
31. (agamal007) Are you a clock?- No
32. (PinkWorld) Are you an electronic/electric/electrical circuit? - No
33. (Neon12) Can you short circuit? - No
34. (workerbee) Did you come into use in 2000 or later? - No
35. (canmus) Would there be several you in a home? - A simple yes/no answer is not possible.
36. (tango08) Are you a chair? - No
37. (Pericles) Are you an antenna? - No
38. (Neon12) Are you a ballpoint pen? - No
39. (agamal007) Are you a lamp? - No
40. (canmus) Are you off use outside the home? (eg in office, schools, hospitals) - Yes (assuming you mean "of use", i.e. are you used outside the home?)
41. (bob zea) Are you an Ethernet cable? - No
42. (Sanpaca) Are you a smoke alarm? - No
43. (Neon12) Are you copper wire? - No
44. (workerbee) Do you form part of a larger object? - A yes/no answer to this question is not appropriate. And I will push the envelope a bit by referring you to question 3.
45. (canmus) Are you a one time purchase? (As opposed to renting/ contracting like a phone line or car insurance) - A simple yes/no answer is not appropriate. You guys must hate this answer by now.
46. (bob zea) Are you e-mail? - No
47. (Pericles) Are you electricity? - No
48. (agamal007) Are you water (running water from the tap)? - No
49. (workerbee) Are you Microsoft Windows? - No
50. (tango08) Are you an electric car? - No
51. (bob zea) Are you an IP packet? - No
52. (canmus) Do you cost more than €300 to buy? (If you can be bought) - A simple yes/no answer is not appropriate.
53. (agamal007) Are you a heater or heating system? - No
54. (workerbee) Are you software? - Yes!!! I was wondering when someone would get around to that question!
55. (arianayaris) Are you a sound system? - No
56. (bob zea) Are you Microsoft Word? - No
57. (Pericles) Are you an app? - No
58. (agamal007) Are you Firefox? - No
59. (workerbee) Are you a specific piece of software (as opposed to a generic category such as word processor, spreadsheet, etc.)? - Yes
60. (arianayaris) Are you a photo editing software? - No
61. (tango08) Are you SPSS? - No
62. (bob zea) Are you the Mac OS? - No
63. (agamal007) Maybe you are Adobe Photoshop? - No
64. (Neon12) Are you linux? - No
65. (workerbee) Are you a software game? - No
66. (Pericles) Are you Windows 10? - No
67. (koretof) Are you a eBook reader? - No
68. (tango008) Are you paint? - No
69. (agamal007) Are you MS DOS? - No (I also remember seeing a little yellow "C:" on a blank black screen and thinking - now what!!?? )
70. (workerbee) Are you a suite of programs? - No
71. (PinkWorld) Are you an open source software? - No
72. (jules0019) Are you exclusive for windows operating computers? - No
73. (bob zea) Are you one of the following: a database program, an e-mail client or a computer security program (anti-malware/anti-virus/software firewall, etc.)? - No
74. (workerbee) Are you WordPerfect? - Is this question allowed (i.e. does sherlockx's post count?)
75. (canmus) Are you backup software? - No
76. (Isak) Are you WordPerfect? - Alas, no
77. (PinkWorld) Are you Siri? - No
78. (bob zea) Are you Lotus Notes? - No
79. (workerbee) Are you Lotus 1-2-3? - No
80. (Pericles) Are you Secretary Organizer? - No
81. (canmus) Do you even exist? - A simple yes/no answer is not appropriate.
82. (jules0019) Are you a voice to text programm? - No
83. (bob zea) Are you Meeting Maker? - No
84. (workerbee) Are you manufactured by Borland, MicroPro, or Microsoft? - Yes
85. (Pericles) Are you Microsoft Excel? - No
86. (yumjala) Are you an operating system? - No
87. (PinkWorld) Are you OneNote? - No
88. (bob zea) Are you PowerPoint? - No
89. (workerbee) Are you Borland's Sidekick or Sidekick Plus? - No
90. (jules0019) Are you an accounting programm? - No
91. (canmus) Are you a spreadsheet program? - No
92. (yumjala) Are you a security programm? (e.g. firewall, antivirus,...) - No
93. (bob zea) Are you Outlook? - No
93. (PinkWorld) Are you manufactured by Microsoft? - Yes*
94. (workerbee) Are you Internet Explorer? - No
95. (canmus) Are you used for mathamatical Purposes or calculations? - No
96. (agamal007) Are you visual basic? - No
97. (Pericles) Are you Windows Phone? - No
98. (dreamlily) Are you Microsoft Access? - No
99. (workerbee) Are you MSN? - No
100. (tango08) Are you involved in the XBox? - No
101. (morefire) Are you C# ? No
102. (Pericles) Are you Microsoft OneNote? - No
103. (arianayaris) are you skype? - No
104. (workerbee) Are you Hotmail? - No
105. (bob zea) Are you Clippy, the Office Assistant? - YES!!!

* I originally said "A simple yes/no answer is not available" because of the word "manufactured" - strictly speaking the answer would be No, but that just seemed too unfair - then noticed that I let it slip by in question 84. So for the sake of consistency, the answer here has to be Yes as well.

[Neon12]

Are you alive?

[profprofessorson]

Would you fit inside a microwave?

[canmus]

Are you an object?

[agamal007]

Are you a place?