"Red Rabbit" Trivia Quiz

Answer: Between "Patriot Games" and "The Hunt for Red October"

"Red Rabbit" begins approximately 5 months after the events of "Patriot Games." Little Jack Ryan Jr. is 5 months old, and the book opens with the Ryan family moving into their residence in England.

Answer: False

Jack and Dan met for the first time when Jack was in the hospital following the attempt on the life of the Prince of Wales and his family in "Patriot Games."

Answer: The first basement level.

Captain Zaitzev's workplace at #2 Dzerzhinskiy Square is the equivalent of the Main Enemy's 'MERCURY.' Messages to and from KGB agents and The Centre pass through Captain Zaitzev's office and across his desk.

Answer: Press Attaché

Ed had set up his cover by working for the New York Times as a reporter on a general beat. He did the job at a somewhat substandard level, making it seem as if he wasn't really cut out for the job, then taken a position with the State Department as a Press Attaché. Basically, he acted as a gobetween with foreign correspondents and embassy officials.

Answer: Century House

Century House was so named because of its street address: 100 Westminster Bridge Road. It is located just down the road from the Houses of Parliament.

Answer: C

Jack first met Sir Basil a year earlier shortly after having been shot. Jack's development of the 'Canary Trap' had been known to Sir Basil, and he had had much praise to offer Jack about it.

Answer: Hockey

Zaitzev uses the chance encounter as an opportunity later on when he considers how to follow through on his plan to defect. Further 'chance' encounters and brush-passes on the subway are the result.

Answer: Bunny

The irony of this nickname is that the CIA term for a defector in the process of running is 'rabbit.' Ed Foley compounds the irony by naming the operation to extract Zaitzev and his family Operation BEATRIX after the author of the popular children's book, "Peter Rabbit."

Answer: The Pope

Even though he doesn't share the same belief system as the Catholic Church, Zaitzev's attack of conscience stems from the fact that his government wants to kill an innocent man.

Answer: Bulgaria

The Sofia Rezident of the Bulgarian SSS is Colonel Bubovoy.

Answer: Turkey

They choose a Turk to do the job to throw off any police as to the real origin of the assassination attempt. With the long-standing antipathy between Islam and the Christian Churches, a single Muslim extremist is an ideal candidate for such an attempt.

Answer: Train

The premise behind using the train is for the CIA to acquire a photograph of the family while at the station. As the family is planning a 'vacation', use of a train is even more appropriate for someone wanting to enjoy the countryside.

Answer: James Szell

It was pure bad luck. A Hungarian officer, Andreas Morrisay, happened to be in a coffee shop and saw a 'courier' make a dead-drop, attaching a tobacco tin to the underside of a table. He waited and watched James Szell sit at the same table a little over an hour later and retrieve it.

As Szell put it, "All this over a rookie second-rate agent furnishing second-rate information about a third-rate communist air force."

Answer: Bonn

Ostensibly, Jack is going to be giving an intelligence briefing at a NATO meeting.

Answer: York

The first victim to 'volunteer' their carcass for Operation BEATRIX is Owen Williams. After downing six pints of dark beer at his favorite pub, he goes home and falls asleep in front of the telly with a lit cigarrette in his hand.

Answer: Johann Sebastian Bach

The performance consisted of Bach's first three Brandenburg Concertos in the first half, followed by the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, Sheep May Safely Graze, and Pachelbel's Canon after the intermission.

Answer: A pair of red Reebok sneakers

Istvan Kovacs, the driver of the truck (and hired smuggler), gives Captain Laszlo Budai the pair of red Reebok sneakers (with velcro!) for his daughter Zsóka, just in time for her fifth birthday.

Answer: Cassius

The fruits of this investigation are realized in the next chronological novel, "The Hunt for Red October" when the CIA manages to turn Cassius into a double agent, feeding misinformation to the Russians as needed.

Answer: 6

Ryan is the lone CIA representative of the group, which also includes Sparrow, King, Stones, Parker and Sharp of the British SIS. Using the same kind of earpiece radios that the US Secret Service are known for, the six of them coordinate their crowd scanning to try and spot Strokov. Sparrow spots him, and Ryan moves in to intercept.

Answer: No

Unbeknownst to Ryan and company, Strokov wasn't there to assassinate the Pope, but to kill the assassin after the fact. Jack manages to catch him before he does that, thinking that he's saving the Pope's life in the process. But, even the best intelligence can be lacking in the necessary detail, as Strokov's hired Turk still manages to shoot the Pope.