"kaverznye voprosy"

[Glushchenko, Alexei A.]

> Lily Alexander

> I am trying to find an equivalent to "kaverznye voprosy" - which are 
> intentionally playful, provoking, teasing, and controversial <...>
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You don't think "trick question" would do the trick?

> My 2nd question is how to find the best translation of "prokurennyi 
> golos kak u zeka," - speaking of a Stalin camp survivor, a lady and a 
> professor.
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chain-smoking (cracked/gruff/gravelly/tobacco-roughened) voice of a Gulag prisoner?

Alexei Glushchenko
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