Chess Trivia Game (Please only submit one answer per question)

I'm re-posting this so it won't get buried .....

Question #3 .... Name at least 4 of the 6 players on the strongest chess team in history (Hint: this team played at the 13th Chess Olympiad in 1958 and four of them were World Champions).

Spaasky, Bottvinik. Well it was no doubt the Russian team but I can't remember them all.  

It was the Soviet team.   That is correct.   Botvinnik was one of them.   Spassky was not, surprisingly.   

Bottvinnik Tal Smyslov Petrosian Flohr Keres.

You won !!!   You got 5 out of 6.   

The USSR team that participated in the 13th Olympiad (Munich 1958) had been claimed as the strongest team ever.  It was composed of four world champions (Mikhail Botvinnik, Vasily Smyslov, Mikhail Tal and Tigran Petrosian), one world championship challenger (David Bronstein) and Paul Keres, four times runner-up in the Candidates Tournament.

Does anyone else want to post a trivia question?   If so, go right ahead.   You have to know the answer though and check the thread daily to see if anyone got it right.   

Alright here's a boring one Lol

But how about chess now a days! Increasing in difficulty, can someone name:

a) Top 5 current FIDE players

b) Top 5 and in the correct order

c) Top 5 and at least first 3 digits of their rating

Is that the one where Botvinnik, while running the show at a team meeting, looked around the room, and, without actually saying Bronstein's name, nevertheless declared, "There will be *no* King's Gambits at this olympiad."?

Last I heard, it was 

Carlsen (285?)

Caruana (283?)

Deng (279?)

Nepomniachi (278?)

MVL (278? - tied with Nepo, I think, at least after rounding)

Very nice!  Got A and B correct and 3/5 on C.. only 1 number off on the other 2.  Won't say which ones are slightly off yet   

I suspect it's the two at the top.

Okay, whay composer once beat a (future) world champion?

Correct again! Alright it is:

Carlsen 2862

Caruana 2823

Liren 2791

Nepo & MVP 2784

Hmm interesting. I love music, but mostly classical piano, way before they had world chess champions... Hmmm throw a random guess of... Sergei Rachmaninoff? 

Nope, but not too far off in time or place.

That's what I was trying to base my guess off of! Someone in the "right" area and time. 

Will stay tuned for the answer  

Will post tomorrow night if nobody gets it before.

And here it be:

Obviously not Capablanca at his best (it was a simul).  He evidently took on c7 on move 24, thinking he had 27 Qxe5 -- but that loses instantly to 27 ... Qg6+!

Here's another curio that perhaps shows Prokofiev even stronger (unless you suppose he had foreseen the combinations when he allowed 24 Nxc7 in the Capablanca game - perhaps he did).

A and B.  Carlsen, Caruana, Liren, Nepo and MVL.   C. No clue.  lol

Nope, the other kind.