10 questions what where when. Club of intellectual games

Feel like a connoisseur of the TV show What? Where? When? Try to answer tricky questions, but don't overuse the answers below! Many answers can be arrived at through thought and logic.

1. Which two passengers, according to the rules of international air transportation, cannot be in the same row of seats in the aircraft cabin?

2. Why does the conductor in Iran not walk on the bus, but stand exactly in the middle?

3. In 1445, bells rang by themselves in Moscow and the inhabitants decided that the end of the world had come. However, this “end” was experienced back in 1091 by the people of Kiev, in 1230 by the people of Vladimir, in 1626 by the Solovki, and again by the Muscovites in 1802. What was it really?

4. The indigenous people of Burma raise pigs, sell them to the Chinese, and then buy pork from them. Why do they need such disadvantageous manipulations?

5. In Sweden, dog owners prefer low, flattened breeds, while in neighboring Norway, on the contrary, they love dogs that are awkwardly tall, like a double-decker bus. What explains such a difference in tastes among neighboring, kindred peoples?

6. Every day the Earth adds 400 tons in weight. For what?

7. What unique geographical feature do Russia, Türkiye and Egypt have?

8. In the Colombian district of Muzo, not a single chicken can be killed and gutted without the presence of a government official. What is the reason for this strange law?

9. After the legendary Pele published his book "I am Pele", he received a gold medal from the Ministry of Education. For what?

10. Going on the road at night, some inhabitants of tropical Africa tie bags filled with insects to their feet. For what?

11. The authorities of the Mexican state of Tabasco, developing a law against alcoholism, met with strong resistance. As a result, they managed to impose a ban on the sale of only one type of beer. The pub owners went on strike over this ban. What kind of beer was forbidden to sell them?

12. In Swaziland, it is considered indecent to interfere with parliamentarians when they are conferring with their ancestors. How do they do it?

13. When someone falls seriously ill in a wild African tribe, the sorcerer can bring out the disease in such a way that it can be taken into hands and then sold to naive white tourists. How?

14. There is an island in the Strait of Gibraltar, which in ancient times could not be bypassed during the crossing. This was cleverly used by its inhabitants, charging everyone a fixed fee. What is the name of this island?

15. The shortest river in the world is located in the USA and has a length of 134 m and an unusual short name starting with the letter "D". Give this title.

16. Astronauts say that from a height the river beds look like the blood arteries of a living organism. This figurative comparison is not far from the truth. It is no coincidence that during the Great Patriotic War Odessa surgeons used water as a blood substitute. What?

17. Prior to the Second World War, color-blind pilots were not taken to serve in the US Air Force, but in 1941 the situation changed radically - they began to be preferred. Why?

18. At the bottom of some northern seas, at a relatively shallow depth, plowed furrows can be found, the length of which reaches hundreds, and the depth is several meters. Name the "plowman" who created them.

19. What in Germany until the 30s of our century was hung from the ceiling on New Year's Eve?

20. Iceland specializes in setting New Year's world records. In what very dangerous area does it succeed?

Answers:
1. Cat and dog.
2. It separates the male and female halves.
3. Earthquake
4. Buddhism forbids them to kill.
5. In Sweden, the tax on dog owners is assigned based on the height of the dogs, and in Norway - based on their length.
6. Due to cosmic dust.
7. Located in two parts of the world.
8. Emeralds may be in their stomachs, which chickens peck to improve their digestion.
9. Many learned to read specifically to read this book.
10. To light the way (fireflies are collected in bags).
11. Cold!
12. In a dream (some of our parliamentarians do the same thing at meetings, only no one understands them).
13. The sorcerer removes the disease with a mask, which is then sold in the markets.
14. Tariff.
15. D (you can’t imagine shorter).
16. Marine (the so-called biogenic substances are concentrated in it, the chemical and energy properties of which are close to the composition of human blood).
17. Because they see camouflaged objects better.
18. Icebergs that have run aground
19. Christmas tree.
20. Iceland leads in the number of launched fireworks.

Question 1: We hope you enjoy this question. Typical English joke. An elderly gentleman, going up in an elevator to the top floor, starts a conversation with the elevator operator:
- And tell me, my dear, what is the most difficult thing in your work? Probably lifts?
- No, sir.
- Then, probably, descents?
- No, sir.
- But what, in that case?
Restore the elevator operator's response.

Answer: Questions, sir.

Answer: Everything that is later than three counts.

Answer: deadline (deadline).

Credit: for the keyword “questions” (“stupid questions”, “stupid questions”, “answer questions”, etc.).

Question 4: Writer Sergei Ivanov compared the January sun with HER. SHE usually shines several times a day, and for a rather short time. Name HER in two or three words.

Answer: a light bulb in the refrigerator

Question 5: Once, in the mid-30s. of the last century, HE visited his friend and read one work to the daughters of a friend. When leaving, HE forgot his stick, and so the girls decided that HE was THE ONE. Name those whom we encrypted with the words "HE" and "THAT"

Answer: Marshak and Scattered from Basseinaya Street.

Question 6: In one of the Harry Potter books, the bookseller is in serious trouble because of the pugnacity of the monster books. He recalls another embarrassing situation, when the store bought books on how to DO IT. Name the person who managed to DO IT scientifically.

Answer: The protagonist of the book The Invisible Man is Griffin, Books of Invisibility.

Question 7: On August 3, 1937, for literally an hour and a half, more than 15 thousand residents of Minsk saw how a red balloon was first raised on a high mast, and then at different intervals, one after another, six green balloons. What object today performs the functions of these balloons?
…

Answer: Scoreboard.

Commentary: The balls denoted the goals scored in a football match.

Question 8: American actor Willie Rogers, proud of his family's antiquity, once said, “My ancestors were not among the first settlers to America on the Mayflower. They were…". Finish the phrase.

Answer: among those who met him.

Question 9: Somehow, according to the program Today, it was reported that a dog had bitten a certain Sergei Ivanovich, and, according to the correspondent, now only this citizen knows ... And what does he know?

Answer: where the dog is buried.

Question 10: [Presenter: read Stalin's phrase with a Georgian accent; highlight the word “soften” a bit.]
“This thing is stronger than Goethe's Faust. Here love conquers death.” They say that when it was decided to put the book of Maxim Gorky with this inscription by Stalin on public display, the archives workers froze in anticipation of the scandal. One ordinary employee was not taken aback, who, in order to soften the impression of this exhibit on visitors, armed herself with a pen and added ... What?

Answer: Soft sign.

Credit: Soft signs.

Commentary: Stalin made this inscription while very drunk, so he wrote “love”.

Question 11: While driving along a St. Petersburg street, the author of the question saw an inscription that reported on one action that is completely common today. Exactly the same inscription, by the way, could well hang on the doors of a medieval armory. Reproduce the text of this two-word inscription.

Answer: Making copies.

Question 12: At the Statler Hotel in Chicago, the management sometimes sits a mannequin, who is jokingly called Louis XIV, in front of those gathered for a dinner party, and serves him on an equal basis with the rest of the guests. In what cases do they do this?

Answer: When 13 people gathered at the table, the 14th was seated - a mannequin.

Commentary: Superstitions are strong in our time ...

Question 13: Of whom did Mark Twain say: “He was a happy man. When something funny occurred to him, he could be firmly convinced that he was not repeating other people's witticisms”?

Answer: Adam.

Question 14: In The Book of Useless Facts, one finds the following useless fact: "If THIS were recognized as a religion, THIS would be the tenth largest religious movement." We add that in some countries, such as, for example, the DPRK, the PRC, the former USSR and, according to some opinion polls, in Israel IT would become the most numerous religion, but not in Poland. What is this?

Answer: Atheism.

Question 15:

Guessing how the LiveJournal user crimenelf [crimenelf] signed these two pictures, write what word he signed the third photograph removed by us.

Question 16: In House M.D., a doctor makes diagnoses for very complex cases of illness. His colleague Wilson is sometimes involved in the diagnosis. According to Wikipedia, the prototype of Dr. House was another fictional person. State the name of this person.

Answer: Holmes.

Commentary: Dr. House even lives in the house at number 221B, like his alleged prototype Sherlock Holmes. House and Wilson - surnames begin with the same letters as Holmes and Watson.

Question 17: The German naturalist Johann Blumenbach called this animal the “primordial he”. We do not ask what and how we have changed in this matter. Name this animal.
…

Answer: Mammoth.

Commentary: In fact, Blumenbach called the mammoth the "primordial elephant."

Question 18: According to one version, this work tells about the creation of the world. The demiurges are a bird and a mammal, and the emotional witnesses are a couple of ancestors, the first people. Name this piece.
…

Answer: Ryaba Hen.

Question 19:

In one of the episodes of the animated series "The Simpsons" Lisa begins to smoke, and Homer tries to wean her from this habit. The original title of this episode was the title of a popular song with the beginning of the last word changed. Play this title.

Answer: Smoke on the daughter.

Question 20:

A Twitter user commented on the resignation of Yuri Luzhkov with the words "They cut the forest - the chips fly." In one of the words of this post, we have replaced one letter. Reproduce the word used by the blogger.

Answer: Caps are flying.

Question 21:

According to the set expression, this piece of clothing is very hard for the whole day. Name this piece of clothing.

Answer: Socks. All day on your feet.

Question 22: Roma Voronezhsky drew a BLACK SQUARE in the center of the Japanese flag and called what he got the flag of the Kuril Islands. What did we replace with the phrase “BLACK SQUARE”?

Answer: White rectangle.

Questions of school tournaments on the game “What? Where? When?"

2.1 The Hebrew textbook opens with the words: “You are about to study the language you speak…” Who?

Answer. God.

2.2 This word is found in almost all Slavic languages. In Serbian and Slovenian, it means "good harvest". In Czech, Slovak and Polish it means "family". What is this word?

Answer. Motherland.

2.3 Among the Arab tribes of East Jordan, deprivation of this was considered one of the most humiliating punishments. And now many spend about six months to get rid of the consequences of this. So did, for example, Julius Caesar and Alexander the Great. What is this?

Answer. Beard. (The answer is "mustache"- not counted.)

2.4 Why did the King of Denmark, Eric IV, get the not too affectionate nickname "plow penny" among the people?

Answer. He introduced a tax on the plow.

2.5 Among them were an elephant, a rhinoceros, a grizzly, a marten, a lynx, a wasp, a bumblebee, a mouse ... Name the two most famous animals from this unsympathetic company.

Answer. "Tiger" and "Panther". All this- names of fascist tanks and self-propelled guns. ("Leopard"- wrong answer. This is a modern tank.)

2.6 Narts are the heroes of the epic legends of many Caucasian peoples. The most powerful of the Narts was Sasrykva, born of stone and tempered in a forge. What is the name of the drink he took from the gods and presented to people?

Answer. Nart-sano, that is, Narzan.

2.7 At the opening of the monument to Pushkin in 1880, Maria Hartung, Countess Natalya Merenberg, brothers Alexander and Grigory were especially honored guests. Name the brothers.

Answer. Pushkins (all four: daughters and sons of the poet).

2.8 Bulgarian writer Stefan Prodev says: “They were created in order to help Byzantium fight Rome. The emperor and the church considered them their soldiers. But, created as soldiers of the empire, they became the warriors of progress. Their strength overcame not only the papal nuncios, it broke the sword of the Byzantine colonizers sent to enslave the spirit of the Slavs ... ”Name those who created them.

Answer. Cyril and Methodius.

2.9 The main ten models have minor differences. For example, the Voiri model has a straight handle, the Yalasjärvi model has a slightly curved blade, the Rautalammi model has a handle trimmed with thin metal strips, and the Tommy model has a straight blade without recesses. Their common name is "puukko". And what do we call them?

Answer. Finca.

2.10 There is only one sport in which you have to walk backwards to win. Once it was even included in the program of the Olympic Games. What is it called?

Answer. Rope pulling.

2.11 Many representatives of the Naryshkin family left a noticeable mark on Russian history. And what did the Naryshkins themselves consider the main merit of their kind to Russia?

Answer. Birth of PeterI. His mother was Natalya Kirillovna Naryshkina.

2.12 From the Greek word "ridzikon", that is, "cliff", comes the French verb, meaning "to maneuver between the rocks." And what word of the Russian language comes from this verb?

Answer . Risk, risk.

2.13 One of the streets of the Vietnamese city of Ho Chi Minh City is named after the Jesuit Alexander de Rode, who lived in the 17th century. He gave the Vietnamese what they still use today. What did they use before?

Answer. Hieroglyphs. Alexandre de Rhode developed the romanized alphabet for the Vietnamese language.

2.14 According to biblical legend, the daughter of the pharaoh found the baby Moses in a basket in the reeds. The word by which this basket is named occurs again in the Hebrew text of the Bible. What object is called by this word?

Answer. Noah's Ark.

2.15 In 1920, a well-known writer coined the word "laborge". However, his brother, a well-known artist, advised him to use another word. Which?

Answer. Robot. ("Laborge" from English.labor- Job. The writer's name was Karel Capek. IN1920. he wrote the play "IU. Rwhere the word "robot" was first used.)

2.16 In the battle with the Swedes at Gangut in 1714, ten enemy ships were captured, including the flagship Elefant. In honor of this victory, a triumphal arch was built. On this arch hung a picture, under which was the inscription: "The Russian eagle does not catch flies." What was shown in this picture?

Answer. Eagle holdingVelephant claws. (“An eagle sitting on an elephant” counts.)

2.17 Members of one of the Old Believer sects believed that the rite of baptism required not the participation of a priest, but the participation of God. They baptized themselves. And where did they get the water for this ritual?

Answer. They used water sent by God, that is, rain.

2.18 In South Africa, in the vicinity of the small town of Upington, luxurious vineyards are laid out. During the harvesting of ripe berries, they are dumped whole by dump trucks to large, football field-sized concrete platforms, and they are left there. What for?

Answer . This is how raisins are made.

2.19 In ancient Babylon, this sequence looked like this: Saturn, Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus. What do we now call what corresponded to Mars?

Answer. Tuesday.

2.20 Once in South America, the Spanish conquistadors were amazed to see a creature hovering motionless in the air, surrounded by a cloud. Hastily called the priest, he looked at the miracle and announced that it was an angel. And who was it really?

Answer. Hummingbird.

2.21 Everyone is well aware of the “law of the sandwich”, sometimes also called the “law of selective gravity”. According to Jennings' addition to this law, "the probability of a sandwich falling on the carpet on the smeared side is directly proportional to ..." What?

Answer, "... the cost of the carpet."

2.22 What fish is named for its large eyes?

Answer. Perch.

2.23 In the middle of the 9th century, the Vikings first entered the Mediterranean Sea. Encountering no serious resistance from the rich coastal cities, they nevertheless were soon forced to get out. The Vikings were frightened by the sudden “skin disease” that struck them. What was its cause?

Answer. The Vikings, who had never encountered the hot southern sun before, simply burned out.

2.24 This movie has been on the screen for decades. Although it constantly raises the problems of relationships with blacks and cruelty to animals, the plot is always focused on the passions boiling between the inseparable main characters. It is a pity that when translating films into Russian, the names of the characters are not translated, otherwise their names would be Foma and Yerema. What is the name of this movie?

Answer. "Tom and Jerry".

2.25 What ancient Russian city was founded where the Volga forms a bend?

Answer. Uglich (from the word "corner").

2.26 This type of treatment is used for diseases of the joints of the limbs, spine, bones, nervous system, blood vessels, and some forms of infertility. The general name of medical procedures is applications, and some of them have special names: “gloves”, “socks”, “trousers”, “jacket”. What type of treatment are we talking about?

Answer. Mud treatment (procedures are named depending on which parts of the body are covered with mud).

2.27 The ancient Semites called their temples "betil", which means "house of God". And the ancient Iranians called the temples the word "atashked", which means "house ...". Whose?

Answer. Fire. Zoroastrians worship fire.

2.28 One of the English firms produces an "eternal" electric flashlight. Advertising says that diving to a depth of 150 meters does not harm him, the flashlight does not corrode, it is not possible to break or break it. This product is warranted for the life of the owner. However, there is a note in the warranty card: “The company is not responsible for the consequences of an attack on a flashlight by a shark, a bear and ...” Who?

Answer. Child.

2.29 She inspired the artist Grekov, but we know more about the work of the poet Ruderman and composer Listov, dedicated to her. According to that work, she was a native of Kyiv, or Poltava, or Rostov-on-Don. Name her.

Answer. Tachanka.

2.30 This Russian word in the past meant "face" and came from words with the meanings "forehead" and "mouth". What is this word?

Answer. Jaw ("brow" + "mouth").

2.31 The first list is Euler, Brahe, Kepler, Regiomontanus, Ulugbek, Biruni. The second list is Kordylevsky, Lovell, Struve, Sternberg, Galileo, Vorontsov-Velyaminov. The people on the first and second list were astronomers. And who were the people from the first list, but were not the people from the second list?

Answer . Astrologers.

2.32 Once an attempt was made to find out what factors influenced the choice of profession by famous people. It turned out that in second place - the influence of acquaintances, in the third - travel, in fourth. - natural beauties, then - the influence of parents, school and theater. What factor came first?

Answer. Books.

2.33 Doll, deceased, amoeba, toy, corpse, queen. Choose from this list those nouns that, from the point of view of the grammar of the Russian language, are animate.

Answer. Doll, dead man, amoeba, queen. By definition, animate nouns are those that do not have the same plural nominative and accusative forms, for example: them. P. - dead, wines P. - I see the dead; them. P. - corpses, wines P. - I see corpses.

2.34 In the primitive era, this was considered a natural process of ridding society of useless members. Then it was considered a terrible crime, the ancient Greeks were horrified by the mere thought of it. We have known about one such crime since childhood. The defendant denied having committed the crime. Name at least one of its distinguishing features and the instrument of crime.

Answer. The offender was red and freckled, and he killed his grandfather with a shovel.

2.35 The Swahili people of Africa have a legend telling that the first man descended to earth from the sky. And who helped him do it?

Answer. Giraffe.

2.36 According to one child, adults do not know how to love, be friends, regret, rejoice. Because of this, they "do not find what they are looking for." And to find, you need to know only two secrets. The first one says: "Only the heart is vigilant." Name the second one.

Answer. "You are always responsible for those you have tamed."

2.37 “We saw women fighting in the front ranks as leaders. They are white-skinned and tall, their long hair braided and wrapped around their heads. The Oki are strong and, armed with a bow and arrow, each of them fights no worse than ten men. What is the name of the country in which the author of these lines, Gaspard de Carvajal, discovered such amazing women?

Answer. Brazil.

2.38 Both in the traditional Russian women's costume and in the military uniform there is an element whose name is associated with a cockscomb. What is it called in each of these cases?

Answer. Kokoshnik and cockade.

2.39 Before the Jean-Michel Jarre concert near the Moscow State University building on Sparrow Hills, he received a promise from Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov that even the Pope could not give him. So what did Luzhkov promise?

Answer. Good weather.

2.40 Listen to an excerpt from a poem by the poet Sergei Khmelnitsky dedicated to the Prophet Muhammad:

"There were six messengers in the world,

And the earth is not worth the seventh.

There was Adam and Nuh with Ibrahim,

And Musa, and Dawood with Isa.

The seventh "messenger" is, of course, Muhammad. Who is Adam, everyone, of course, knows. And under what names do we know the rest of the enumerated "messengers"?

Answer. Noah, Abraham, Moses, David and Jesus.

2.41 Karion Istomin, the author of the 16th-century Primer, believed that an uncleaned room required five, bad behavior at the table - three, unwashed dishes - six, foul language - ten, not attending church - twelve, and playing cards or dice - eight. What do these numbers mean?

Answer. The number of blows with the rod. (An answer without the word "rod" does not count.)

2.42 In Persian, it means "nettle cloth", in Turkish this expression became the name of a headdress, and in Europe it gave its name to the plant. Which one?

Answer. Tulip (from the word "turban").

2.43 Many Africans who live in the same area with him avoid using his name and call him "He who kills with a smile." And what do we call it?

Answer. Crocodile.

2.44 The followers of the Old Believer sect of the Onisimians believed that the most righteous of them were honored with communion from the hands of an angel once a year. On Holy Thursday, after prayer, they waited for some time with their mouths open for angelic communion. Because of this custom, they received two nicknames among the people. Name these nicknames.

Answer. Open and open.

2.45 What is the name of a failed agricultural worker and musician who discovered significant gaps in the secondary education system.

Answer. Antoshka.

2.46 The flag of Ireland alternates between green, white and orange. White color symbolizes the world, and who does green and orange symbolize, if for many years the symbolism of the flag could not be realized?

Answer. Catholics and Protestants.

2.47 Before the opening of the Moscow metro, it was necessary to decide how to make a signal for the departure of the train. After trying different types of whistles and horns, the leaders of the subway, in the end, made the same choice as the prophet Muhammad in his time. What did they choose?

2.48 The ancient Indians numbered six "urmi" - the suffering that accompanies a person's life. I will name five: they are hunger, thirst, heat, cold, greed. If your karma is not so heavy and you will not undergo the sixth suffering right now, then you will correctly name it. What is this?

Answer. These are mistakes.

2.49 Sailors, as you know, have no questions. And who, according to the poem by Yuri Mikhailik, has no answers?

Answer. At poets have no answers.

2.50 The Chinese sage Xu Zeshu wrote that this can be done when you are idle, when you listen to boring poems, when the music stops, when you live in solitude, when you talk late at night, when you receive a learned husband or well-mannered singers, in good weather, in hot weather. , day, at dusk. All of you probably do this, and most of you do it regularly. And what is needed for this?

Answer. Tea and cups. This is a tea party.

2.51 In the games of two boys, she performed the functions of a Christmas tree, a cab driver, a Chinese pagoda, a flower pot on a stand, and even a bishop, until she became the keeper of the Great Secret. And what was she really?

Answer. Chess queen (“Conduit and Shvambrania” by L. Kassil). The answer "chess piece" is accepted, "pawn" is not.

2.52 The word "wing" in German and Dutch sounds very similar. Both words were borrowed into Russian, but the German began to denote a separate building, and the Dutch - a detail of a building or, if you like, a device. State both words.

Answer. Outbuilding and weather vane.

2.53 Alexei Ivanovich Popov, Minister of Culture of the RSFSR in the 1950s, was such a desperate foul language that even the Soviet leadership, in the end, could not stand it. Popov was removed from the Ministry of Culture and appointed ... by whom?

Answer. Minister of Education.

2.54 During excavations of an ancient Egyptian settlement in Thebes, fragments of limestone with funny drawings were discovered. One of them depicts a donkey, a lion, a crocodile and a monkey. Half of this information is enough for any Russian schoolchild to guess what they are doing. With what?

Answer. They play musical instruments (a donkey and a monkey - half of Krylov's Quartet).

2.55 Along with other great men of England, he is buried in Westminster Abbey. The following epitaph is placed on his tombstone: "He increased the wealth of his country, increased the strength of man and occupies an outstanding place among the most glorious scientists and real benefactors of the world." This person's last name is in the SI system. Who is he?

Answer. James Watt (watts on light bulbs- Vhis honor).

2.56 According to legend, these sounds were heard in the summer of 1284 in a city in Germany. They heard the tickling rustle of grain, a trickle flowing from a hole in the bag; cheerful clicking of butter in a frying pan; crunch of cracker under sharp teeth. What were these sounds for?

Answer. To lure rats out of the city (the legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin).

2.57 A bold project conceived in the 1920s by two Soviet sailors, Andrei Vasilyevich Vronsky and Ivan Alexandrovich Mann, remained unfulfilled. Their ship did not even leave the port. But later this plan nevertheless brought them well-deserved fame. True, under other names. What exactly?

Answer . Captain Vrungel and senior assistant Lom. Vronsky and Mann were planning a trip around the world on a two-seater yacht; A. Nekrasov put Vronsky's stories about the failed trip as the basis of his book.

2.58 Sixth were birds, seventh was a bull, eighth were mares, tenth were cows, eleventh were apples, twelfth was a dog. Name the first and second.

Answer. Lion (Nemean) and Hydra (Lernaean). The exploits of Hercules are listed (not all).

2.59 According to one ancient myth, when God created man, the devil wanted to repeat the experiment. But instead of a man, he got a wolf, who immediately bit his creator. For what place? Justify the answer.

Answer. By the leg, the devil has been limping ever since.

2.60 The word "dvija" - "twice-born" - the ancient Indians called a representative of one of the three higher castes, as well as a part of the human body and the animal class ... Name the animal and body part. Answers that correctly name at least one of the two will be accepted.

Answer . Bird and tooth.

2.61 According to legend, they poisoned Jesus' last minutes of his life, just as they often poison our lives. Therefore, according to popular belief, by killing one of them, you can get rid of forty sins. Who are they?

Answer . Mosquitoes.

2.62 The staging of Alexei Kruchenykh's opera Victory over the Sun, which took place at the end of 1913, was also to mark a complete victory over realism. Even the sun on the set had nothing to do with the real thing. Who was the stage designer?

Answer. Kazimir Malevich (he depicted the sun as a black square).

2.63 The Romans called this word a well-coordinated game on wind musical instruments, harmony, unanimity. Sometimes it acquired a negative connotation and meant: a conspiracy, a conspiracy to rebellion. We call this word one of the necessary conditions for such a conspiracy. Name this word.

Answer. Conspiracy (cop- co, spero - spirit).

2.64 The inhabitants of Polynesia had very useful items, without which they did not go on trips. These objects were palm leaf cuttings connected by plant fibers, intersecting at different angles. In some places, mollusk shells were attached to them. What did cuttings mean, and what did shells mean?

Answer. These objects are nautical charts, on which shells denoted islands, and leaf cuttings denoted sea currents.

2.65 The first edition of the Small Soviet Encyclopedia says about this city: “The population is 1 million 360 thousand inhabitants. It is located at the vast closed bay of the Atlantic Ocean. The main streets in terms of the wealth of shops and the splendor of buildings are not inferior to the first cities in the world, and in the working quarters there are squalid shacks, narrow and dirty streets. And what clothes, according to a less authoritative source, did the inhabitants of this city prefer?

Answer. White pants. This is Rio de Janeiro, and Bender carried in his pocket a clipping from the Little Soviet Encyclopedia.

2.66 In total there are 321 species. There are sword-billed, red, ruby-throated, sappho, angel, long-tailed, topaz, rocket-tailed and others. Who are they and what is the name of the one that is the size of a swallow?

Answer. Giant or gigantic hummingbird.

2.67 The mystery of Igor Guberman. Huberman claims to have asked it to many humanities friends and only once got the right answer. So, who are they - "a brother-in-law aims at a brother-in-law for sure"?

Answer. Dantes and Pushkin.

2.68 Demonakt once saw two ignoramuses, one of whom asked stupid questions, and the other gave no less stupid answers. The demonact said to them, "I think one of you is milking a goat, and the other is framing..." What?

Answer. Sieve.

2.69 The first one, which appeared in Moscow in 1338, arrived from captured Tver. After 1346, the chronicler tells about the "captives" from the conquered cities and principalities: Gorodets, Pskov, Smolensk. In Moscow, one could also find “foreigners” among them, for example, many of them were captured in 1480 after a clash with the Livonian Order. There were also local "natives". Why did a quarter of them die in the first half of the 18th century?

Answer . PeterIordered to pour the bells on the guns.

2.70 In 1995, for the first time in history, the Japanese ate more of the former than of the latter. Name both the first and the second product.

Answer . Meat, rice

2.71 You probably know the famous competition of steam locomotives, in which Stephenson's "Rocket" won. Before the start of these competitions, the judges disqualified one of the locomotives, as they discovered a dishonest trick that dramatically increased the chances of this locomotive to win. Now such a trick would hardly help win the race. What engine did this locomotive have?

Answer. A live horse was hidden there (with the help of peculiar pedals, it drove the wheelsVmovement).

2.72 All of you have heard about the famous Aztec civilization and their language, otherwise called Nahuatl. You all know that it was the Aztecs who gave the Old World chocolate, in Aztec "chocolatl". Now tell me, how exactly do the names of a vegetable of the nightshade family and an animal of the canine family sound in Aztec?

Answer. Tomatl and coyote.

2.73 By the beginning of the twentieth century, this area ratio for Great Britain was 1:109, for the Netherlands - 1:67, for France and Portugal - 1:21, for Germany and Denmark - 1:5, for Belgium - 1:80. What are these ratios?

Answer . The ratio of the areas of the metropolises to the areas of the colonies.

2.74 On the back of the head of these birds is a black crest of elongated feathers. This feature about two hundred years ago made them look like people of a certain profession, hence the name of these birds. What are they called?

Answer. Secretary bird.

2.75 This French playwright Sergey Lvovich Pushkin, being in a good mood, willingly recited to children. Under his influence, 9-year-old Pushkin wrote - in French! - the play "The Kidnapper". But the public, represented by sister Olga, booed the play, and the self-critical author immediately wrote an epigram on himself, in which he confessed that he borrowed the play from another ... Whom?

Answer. At Molière.

2.76 "Scottish brothers" were known in the XV-XVI centuries, "Bohemian sisters" - in the XIX-XX. However, the former name of a completely different country has become a household name. If you understand what is at stake, then you can easily say what this country is called now.

Answer . Thailand, we are talking about Siamese twins.

2.77 Once the "Golden Goddess" - the cup awarded to world football champions, was stolen. The dog who found her named Shalopai immediately became famous. He was invited to star in the film "The Detective with a Cold Nose", was awarded a commemorative medal. What additional privilege was granted to him, if he alone possesses it among his brethren?

Answer. The right to attend football matches.

2.78 Specialists in military propaganda know that in agitation it is necessary to take into account the national psychological characteristics of the personnel of the enemy troops. So, for example, it is believed that American soldiers tend to evaluate the orders of commanders from the point of view of expediency; for the Japanese, comfort during hostilities is not important; The French are resourceful and imaginative, which is not the case with the British. Representatives of which nation are known to overestimate the role of numerical superiority over the enemy?

Answer. About the Chinese.

2.79 In an ancient Welsh manuscript called the Black Book, the legendary King Arthur bears the title of Amberoudir. What does this title mean?

Answer. It is a corruption of the word "emperor".

2.80 All of you, of course, know the story of three hundred Spartans who detained a whole army of Persians in the Thermopylae Gorge. But why was only this small detachment in the way of the Persian army? Where was the main power of Hellas concentrated at that time?

Answer. In Olympia. The main forces of the Greeks set out on a campaign only after the end of the Olympic Games.

2.81 Listen to the verse.

"Acrobat and dog

Weigh two empty barrels

Nimble dog without an acrobat

Weighs two skeins of twine,

And with one skein of lamb

It weighs - you see - a barrel.

Attention question:

How much does an acrobat weigh

In terms of lambs?

Answer. 2.

2.82 Some historians believe that they come from China, others insist that they came from Africa. Their appearance in Europe was first documented in 1369. Name those that have two heads.

Answer . King, queen, jack.

2.83 In Moscow there is the Los River, a tributary of the Ichka River, which flows into the Yauza. And what is the name of the largest of the streams flowing into the Elk River?

Answer. Elk.

2.84 This man, according to the text of Homer's Odyssey, tried to calculate the route of Odysseus's journey through the Mediterranean Sea. He allegedly found the cave of Polyphemus in Sicily, and identified the island of Theacov with the island of Corfu. Later researchers refuted his conclusions. But his other project was more successful. And what was the name of this person?

Answer. Heinrich Schliemann.

2.85 In ancient Chinese writings it is said that in the spring it is supposed to make sacrifices to Ma-tszu - the progenitor of horses, in the summer - to Xian-mu - the first horse herder, in winter - to Ma-bu - the spirit of horse diseases. And in autumn, sacrifices should be made to Ma-she, who, as you might guess, is also related to horses. Who was Ma-she?

Answer. First rider.

2.86 The iconographic rules for the image of this saint were established recently - in 1988. According to them, he should be depicted with the icon of the Trinity in his hands. Name it.

Answer. Reverend Andrei Rublev.

2.87 The navigator Bougainville concluded his diary about his journey to this place with the words: “Goodbye, happy people. I will always remember with joy every moment spent among you, and as long as I live, I will glorify the happy island of Kifaru, this true Utopia. And someone who has not been there claims that he lives no worse with us. What is this place?

Answer. Tahiti island. "Someone Who Wasn't There"- cat from the cartoon "Return of the Prodigal Parrot".

2.88 Five qualities: fidelity, politeness, courage, truthfulness, simplicity - are the main virtues of one of the Japanese paths. And what do people on this path say like this: “If you parted with this, you parted with your life”?

Answer. About the sword.

2.89 For us, real estate is buildings, and movable property is cash and valuables. The ancient Greeks had a similar division, only they called precious metals in ingots, gold, copper, iron not moving wealth; and what kind of wealth they called the word "probata", i.e. "moving property"?

Answer. cattle.

2.90 Not far from the Danish city of Aarhus is a whole country of technical fantasy. Here you can walk around the invented Indian country with caves, monsters and attractions, walk around the "mini-Copenhagen" with the royal palace and guards, sit next to Andersen ... What are all the elements of this extraordinary "country" made of?

Answer. From the details of the designer "Lego" - this is "Legoland".

2.91 According to the Guinness Book of Records, the French soldier Jean Marie Saletti, who escaped from an English prison in 1815, was the first to do this. By May 1997, 4,412 people had attempted this, of which 505 had succeeded, some more than once. What did they do?

Answer . Swim across the English Channel.

2.92 In the Khanty language, “ket” means heart, “sam” means hand. Translate the word "kyotsem" into Russian.

Answer. Pulse.

2.93 Claudia Zakharovna Plotnikova, a representative of the Kamasin people, who died in 1975, and Dolly Pentre from the Cornish were such. But the heroes of the works of the famous American writer and the famous Soviet writer were not like that, despite the titles of the works. What were the people mentioned, but not the characters mentioned?

Answer. The last ("The Last of the Mohicans" by Cooper and "The Last of the Udege" by Fadeev).

2.94 A person looking at the list of Moscow museums can conclude that the life of Yermolova, Chekhov, V. Vasnetsov, Lermontov and A. Ostrovsky was more comfortable than the life of Gorky, Dostoevsky, Tsvetaeva, Meyerhold and A. Vasnetsov. What two terms will help to draw such a conclusion?

Answer. House-museum and museum-apartment.

2.95 We call a respirator a device that protects the respiratory organs from dust and harmful substances contained in the air. Its name comes from the Latin word respirare "to exhale". What device do the French call aspirateur, literally "inhaler"?

Answer. Vacuum cleaner.

2.96 Derzhavin, seeing this, wrote: "The mountain is pouring diamonds." What did he see?

Answer. Waterfall (to be precise, the Kivach waterfall in Karelia).

2.97 Which building, according to the French proverb, is closest to the tavern?

Answer. Jail.

2.98 The Monk Maximus the Confessor, who lived in the 7th century, skillfully and successfully proved the incorrectness of the Monothelite heresy, which was widespread at that time. When he fell into the hands of the Byzantine emperor Heraclius, a supporter of heretics, he ordered to cut off two parts of Maxim's body, the most dangerous from the point of view of the emperor. What parts of the body did Saint Maximus lose?

Answer. tongue and right hand (so that he could neither preach nor write books).

2.99 One of the first to stage Pushkin's works was the playwright Shakhovskaya. He called the staging of The Queen of Spades "Chrysomania, or the Passion for Money"; the name "Kerim-Girey, or the Fountain of Bakhchisaray" speaks for itself. And he called an episode from a certain poem simply “Finn”. What is this poem?

Answer. "Ruslan and Ludmila".

2.100 Blok wrote: “In taverns, in lanes, in windings, In electric waking sleep…” - What did Blok mean by “electric waking sleep”?

Answer. Cinema.

2.101 They may be in the shape of an arch, wing, dome, pyramid or table, and their maximum draft may be more than half a kilometer. Name their most famous victim.

Answer. "Titanic" (we are talking about icebergs).

2.102 In the Middle Ages, this was the name of ready-made samples of letters, in which it was only necessary to enter the date and names of the participants in the transaction. We also get the result by substituting specific data into them. What is it about?

Answer. About formulas.

2.103 This fish got its name because if it is pulled ashore, it immediately changes color - it becomes covered with dark spots. What fish are we talking about?

Answer. Lin (he sheds).

2.104 The names of these military uniform accessories come from words meaning "shoulder" - one in German, the other in French. Name both items.

Answer. Axelbant and epaulette.

2.105 Even on the day of the wedding, the future mother-in-law was ready to postpone the ceremony, demanding more and more sums from Pushkin. As a result, the poet did not have enough money even to purchase this item of clothing necessary for the wedding. And he borrowed it from Nashchokin. According to Pushkin's friends, the same item of clothing was used for burial. What is the subject?

Answer. About tailcoat.

2.106 What was the official opinion of the Iraqi government, expressed in the early 1990s, about the name of the 19th province of Iraq?

Answer. Kuwait.

2.107 The prototype of this musical instrument was the so-called Yelets piano accordion. The modern name was given to it in 1829 by the Viennese master Damian to show that on the instrument designed by him, by pressing one button, you can achieve the sound of several sounds at once. Name this tool.

Answer. Accordion- from the word "chord", the piano accordion got its name due to the fact that its right keyboard was equipped with keys, like a piano. The right keyboard of the accordion has the same appearance.

2.108 Through a simple operation, Matroskin proved to Pechkin that he had a high fever, although Pechkin's temperature was only 36.6 ° C. Reproduce this proof.

Answer. 36 and 6= 42.

2.109 Now the Moscow Museum of Horse Breeding belongs to the Timiryazev Agricultural Academy, but when it was founded, it belonged to another Moscow institution. Which one?

Answer. Hippodrome.

2.110 Some researchers believe that the Latin name for willow, Salix, comes from two Celtic words "sal" and "lis". The first means "near". What does the second mean?

Answer. Water (willow grows near water).

2.111 Most representatives of isopod crustaceans live in water. Only one group of these animals has adapted to live on land, and even then only in a humid environment. This feature is reflected in their russ who's name. Name them.

Answer. Woodlice.

2.112 Leo Tolstoy is said to have loved doing this. A Huanapum Indian chief named Smohalla refused to do so, saying that he "wouldn't dare damage his mother's hair." And we all have repeatedly heard that animals were doing this at night. Which?

Answer . Hares (mowed the grass).

2.113 This man did not believe the words of soothsayers like Nostradamus, who were many in his time. Ridiculing them, he wrote the essay “Predictions”, where in vague and sometimes ominous terms he described ordinary things: sleep, the shadow of a person, playing ball, ants, the work of a digger, kindling a fire. You are well aware of these works. Name their author.

Answer. Leonardo da Vinci (the so-called "Leonardo riddles" are taken from the book "Predictions"),

2.114 On June 8, 1799, Pushkin was baptized in the Church of the Epiphany in Yelokhovo. On February 1, 1837, he was buried at the Konyushennaya Church in St. Petersburg. And what happened on February 18, 1831 in the Great Ascension Church in Moscow?

Answer . The wedding of the poet with Natalya Nikolaevna.

2.115 Right at the Oscars ceremony, the long-awaited statuettes are confiscated from the lucky winners of prizes. What is it for?

Answer. They will be engraved with the name of the recipient and returned.

2.116 For the journey of Catherine II along the Volga, the shipbuilder Shchepin built in Tver a magnificent galley "Tver" with eight cabins for the empress, eight cabins for the retinue ... The crew lived in the hold. The galley was armed with eight small cannons. What were they for?

Answer. For fireworks.

2.117 In a letter to Bonch-Bruevich dated February 5, 1920, Lenin cited the phrase "newspaper without paper and without distances." What did he mean?

Answer. Broadcasting (radio is not received).

2.118 He has been an artist, a speed cleaner, a builder, a nanny, a dog breeder, a tamer, a juggler, a cook, a doctor and many others. He assessed his successes in all areas of activity equally. How?

Answer . Considered myself the bestVthe world.

2.119 In 1936, the song “Eleven Sisters” was written for the film “The Girl from Kamchatka”: “Eleven favorites And everything is like a selection ...” Even if you have not seen the film, you will probably remember the name of at least one sister.

Answer. Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine, etc. In 1936, the USSR included 11 republics (excluding the Baltic states and Moldova).

2.120 In an 18th century Dutch book “Emblems and Symbols” says about Margaret of Navarre: “All her actions, thoughts, desires and feelings followed the great Sun of Righteousness, the almighty Lord, for she turned all her thoughts to the heavenly and spiritual.” What was the symbol of Margaret of Navarre?

Answer. Sunflower.

2.121 For the first time, this word in its modern sense was used in relation to the Englishman James Fig, who defeated all rivals in duels with rapiers, cleavers, clubs and fists. In combination with what name is this word most often written on Moscow fences?

Answer. Spartacus. Word- "champion".

2.122 The huge and luxurious airship "Hindenburg" received a nickname during its construction, which, during its eleventh voyage to New York, it, in fact, lived up to. This nickname consisted of two words. The first word is "heavenly". Name the second.

Answer. "Titanic".

2.123 Prone to paradoxes, Oscar Wilde argued that "a map that does not indicate this country is not worth hanging on the wall." However, you will not find this country on the political map of the world. Name her.

Answer. Utopia.

2.124 The servant of the god Ares, Alectrion, stood guard during the meetings of his master with Aphrodite and had to wake them up before morning. One day he overslept, and Helios found them. As punishment, Ares turned Electrion into… What?

Answer. In a rooster.

2.125 For men, it weighs an average of 25 g, and for women, only 15 g. According to the rules of etiquette, it is not recommended to put it on public display, but if it becomes necessary to use it, then you need to use it discreetly and silently. What is this?

Answer. Handkerchief.

2.126 Judging by its name, it should give liquid food, but many of us happened to ask her for solid food. Who is she?

Answer. Ladybug.

2.127 Lao Tzu said: “The trap is needed to catch the hare: when the hare is caught, the trap is forgotten. THEY are needed to catch the thought: when the thought is caught, they are forgotten about. Name them.

Answer. Words.

2.128 This military rank appeared in the Russian army in 1716 by decree of Peter the Great. In 1798 it was abolished by Paul I, but in 1917 it was restored by the Provisional Government and finally abolished only in 1942 by the headquarters of the Supreme High Command. Name this title.

Answer. Commissioner.

2.129 Valery Bryusov in the poem "Never Again" wrote:

"My face is too strict, like the singer of Inferno,

Girls are embarrassed by the secret of past years ... "

Who is this singer Inferno?

Answer . Dante. "Inferno» - "Hell" (it.)- the first part of the Divine Comedy.

2.130 American Lee Coppola entered his dog Ashley instead of himself in the telephone directory. Soon the mailbox was filled with letters addressed to Ashley Coppola with offers to buy lawn care products, a book on the history of the Coppola family, where Mr. Ashley Coppola was allegedly also mentioned, and other rubbish. But one commercial proposal, in the opinion of the owner, should have especially outraged Ashley, because it directly encroached on his functions. What was offered to him to buy?

Answer . Electronic home security system.

And so all the diversity of the peoples of the world,

United by the community of an idol,

Leading a peaceful, noble dispute,

Answer. Pierre de Coubertin.

2.132 In 1783, one of the most common French sheep received an honorable retirement and a lifelong place in the royal menagerie of Louis XVI. What kind of vehicle did he have to travel for?

Answer. On the hot air balloon.

2.133 When the Byzantine enemies presented this man with poisoned food, he guessed that it contained poison and refused to eat. After that, as a sign of the ability to foresee, he received a nickname. Which?

Answer. Prophetic.

2.134 "Veterinar" in Chukchi - "bark-doctor". What does the Chukchi word "bark" mean?

Answer. Deer (northern).

2.135 Pushkin wrote about Alexander I:

"He is a human! they are dominated by the moment.

He is a slave of rumors, doubts and passions;

Forgive him the wrong persecution:

He took Paris...

And what else did he do good, according to Pushkin?

Answer, "... he founded the Lyceum."

2.136 One of the ideas of the Russian philosopher N. Fedorov was the resurrection of all people who have ever lived on Earth. One of Fedorov's followers thought, where is there a place for everyone? And he found a way out. We don't ask what he suggested, just give him his last name.

Answer. Tsiolkovsky.

2.137 At 5, it is considered light, at 12.5 - strong. Name a person of royal blood, whom he once helped in carrying out search activities.

Answer . Prince Elisha. It's about the wind.

2.138 Christian holidays in Rus' were often accompanied by peculiar customs. So, on Trinity, a tree was cut down, decorated with ribbons, carried around the village with singing, and then branches were broken off from it and scattered across the fields so that the soil was more fertile. What song do they usually sing?

Answer. "There was a birch in the field."

2.139 Finish the humorist Vladimir Reznichenko's joke: “Due to the increased spread of AIDS, Moscow ambulances will be equipped with additional…” What?

Answer . "... speedometer."

2.140 Why did the Chinese poet Su Shi write:

Answer. About verses.

2.141 Vadim Nikitin, the owner of several Moscow restaurants, believes that it is more difficult to cook well, for example, borscht than frog legs. Explaining this thought, he almost repeats one reasoning of Confucius. Why is it so difficult to please a client with borscht?

Answer. Because everyone knows what borscht should taste like, and few people know what frog legs should be like. (Confucius has a saying that drawing a rooster is harder than drawing a devil.)

1.142 Until recently, it was believed that the first realistic depiction of this was made in the 16th century by the Flemish anatomist Andrew Vesalius. However, archaeologists have recently found in Mexico an earthenware vessel similar to this one, made about 2,500 years earlier. What is this?

Answer. Human heart. The answer "heart" without specifying that it is human also counts.

1.143 After the crisis that began in August 1998 and hit Russian entrepreneurs very hard, a proverb was born among them: “Before August 17, it was prestigious to have a mobile phone, but after August 17…” What phone became desirable to have after August 17?

Answer. Worker.

1.144 The name and patronymic of the first of them was Mikhail Fedorovich, the last - Nikolai Alexandrovich. What was the name of the second one?

Answer. Alexei Mikhailovich (Romanov).

1.145 How can a sperm whale, narwhal and walrus replace an elephant?

Answer. Their teeth replace ivory.

1.146 The Sandwich Islands archipelago consists of twenty-four islands: Maui, Molokai, Oahu and so on. What is the name of the largest of the Sandwich Islands?

Answer. Hawaii (Sandwich Islands otherwise Hawaiian).

1.147 The first one has 4 and 4, the second has 8 and 6, the third has 6 and 8, the fourth has 20 and 12, the last has 12 and 20. Name any of these five.

Answer. Tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron (five regular polyhedra).

1.148 Who committed the greatest sacrilege in history against the goddess Artemis?

Answer . Herostratus (burned the temple of Artemis in the city of Ephesus).

1.149 Which of the apostles at the Last Supper was marked by the so-called "communion of salt", that is, Jesus personally dipped a piece of bread in salt for him?

Answer. Judas Iscariot.

1.150 What clock always shows the true time?

Answer. Solar ("true solar time").

1.151 In Malay, as you probably know, the word "orang" means "man". What does the word "orangorang" mean?

Answer. People (plural).

Answer . Fuel, instead of boiling water (99% of bacteria die from the sun during this time).

1.153 He tried to ask for peas, wheat, oats, hemp, barley. What plant should you ask for?

Answer . Sim-sim, or sesame, or sesame (Kasim, when he wanted to get out of the cave of the robbers, "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves").

2.154 Ivan Vasilyevich came to Novgorod, trampled on his liberties, executed many people. Question: who is it - Ivan the Third, the Fourth or someone else?

Answer. Both (and IvanIII, and IvanIVboth did).

2.155 Name two more, besides Romeo and Juliet, the characters of this tragedy, and by the same names as they are indicated in the list of characters.

Answer. Montecchi and Capulet (fathers), Senor Montecchi and Senora Capulet, Nurse Juliet, Brother Lorenz, Mercutio, Benvolio, Tybalt, Paris, Apothecary, Duke of Escalus, Old Man, Brother Giovanni, Balthazar, Samson, Gregory, Pietro, Abram, pages Mercutio and Paris, Bailiff.

2.156 A rectangular sheet of paper folded in half was cut in half again. How many pieces will there be?

Answer. Or two, or three. Answers 2 or 3 are not accepted.

2.157 By the will of fate, we are especially aware of three characters in the history of Ancient Egypt who lived at the same time. This is Akhenaten, his wife and his young successor.

Name the woman and the boy.

Answer. NefertitiAndTutankhamen.

2.158 For buses, trolleybuses, trams and electric trains with right-hand traffic, the exit is more often on the right side than on the left. Why is this not the case for metro trains?

Answer. Platform between tracksAnot outside.

2.159 This city was renamed in 1946 so that the Latinized version of its name Regiomontan would have to be replaced by Viburnumurbus. What is this city?

Answer. Koenigsberg, Kaliningrad (German "koenigs"= lat. "regio"= "royal", German. "berg"= lat. "montan"= mountain, lat. "Viburnum» = viburnum (plant), lat. "urbus"= "city").

2.160 Which two supreme pontiffs, among other things, became famous for the reform of the calendar?

Answer. Julius Caesar and Pope GregoryXIII.

2.161 Hours are arranged differently. What two types of clocks noticeably speed up when gravity increases?

Answer. Walkers with weights (pendulum) and sand (or water).

2.162 What, from a general biological point of view, is the main difference between the oriole and meadowsweet?

Answer . Oriole is an animal, meadowsweet is a plant.

2.163 The word solfeggio comes from the name of two notes. What?

Answer. Sol and Fa (in Italian sound).

2.164 In order to reach Pereslavl and Kyiv from Suzdal in the 12th century, one had to have very long… What?

Answer. Hands (Yuri Dolgoruky got the nickname because, being a prince of Suzdal, he fought for power far from Suzdal).

2.165 From the first letters of the names of the two main characters and the two main characters of this famous novel, the word "veto" is formed. What is this novel?

Answer. "Eugene Onegin" (Vladimir, Evgeny, Olga, Tatyana).

2.166 What are these Latin words: Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpius, Sagittarius, Capricornus?

Answer . Names of the signs of the Zodiac (Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn).

2.167 Who swallowed the stone and ultimately killed his political career as a result?

Answer. Kronos (swallowed a stone instead of the baby Zeus).

2.168 Few of them are so poetic as to carry V imagine the beauty of "ivory" or "morning freshness." What is this?

Answer. Names of states (Korea = Joseon - “Land of the Morning Calm”, Ivory Coast = “Ivory Coast”).

2.169 What is deuterium oxide commonly called?

Answer. Heavy water.

2.170 If d "Artagnan did not go to England, but V Russia, he would find here an extremely romantic, but very little reflected V literature period of history. At the court of which king, almost the same age as Athos, would he be?

Answer . Mikhail Romanov (reigned from 1613 to 1645, LouisXIIIdied 1643, LouisXIV- 1638-1715).

2.171 The Latin word "ksiv" is actually not a word, but ... What?

Answer. Number 14(XIV).

2.172 Biographical description plan: place of birth, place of residence, appearance, environment and meetings, fatal meeting and death, posthumous fate. Cite the beginning of this biographical description.

Answer. "The Forest Raised a Christmas Tree…"

The meaning of the game is that a team of experts answers questions sent by a team of viewers.

Basic Rules

Description of the gameplay

IN TV version games, a team of experts, consisting of six people, answers questions sent by viewers. The question is selected by a top, which in turn launches the manager.

Experts are given one minute to discuss the question, after which the team captain chooses an expert who will answer the question. There are also cases when the team gives an answer ahead of schedule: an expert who knows the answer usually puts his fist on the table with his thumb bent up. If the answer is correct, then the connoisseurs earn an additional minute for discussion, which they can use on any next question on this game. The number of extra minutes depends on the team's early responses. More recently, experts can take a "minute credit" on this question, but on the condition that they answer one of the following questions without a minute's discussion.

The game has a hint club help. If the experts do not know the answer to the question, then they can ask for help from those who are now in the hall. Those present are given 20 seconds to express their versions. Since 2007, “club help” can only be taken if the score is not in favor of experts. Since 2010, it has also been banned from blitz, super blitz and final rounds.

Due to the very large number of people in the hall, there are cases of unauthorized tips. The steward, who noticed this violation of the rules of the game, raises a red card. There are operators in the hall who can record the hint on video cameras. The violator is taken out of the hall until the end of the game.
On April 10, 2016, a yellow card was introduced. It is shown by the managers of the hall to the presenter at the moment when the captain of the playing team asks for the help of the club, and only if, during the discussion, they notice suspicions in the hint. The team is deprived of the help of the club in this round, but, unlike the red card, can give an answer. The violator will suffer a more serious punishment and, at the end of the round, will be required to leave the hall before the end of the game. The help of the club does not burn out and the team can use it in the next rounds if the score is not in favor of the experts. Since 2018, the card has been abolished.

When a team of connoisseurs gives an incorrect answer, the viewers whose questions the connoisseurs made a mistake receive cash prizes: the viewer who brought the first point to his team receives 50 000 rubles, second point 60 000 , third - 70 000 , fourth - 80 000 , fifth - 90 000 and the sixth point 100 000 rubles(until 2012 the amounts were from 10 000 before 60 000 rubles). If the team of experts wins, the undrawn money goes into the prize fund of the final of the year, i.e. if the connoisseurs win with a score of 6:4, 190,000 rubles are added to the fund for the missing 5 and 6 viewer points.

Squat games

In some cases, 2 or more teams of experts can play during one game. This type of game is called squatting games. Its essence is that after each incorrect answer, the teams are replaced: the teams are swapped. The team that starts the game is determined by lot. If the experts win, the team that brought the decisive point last wins.

Description of the location and process of filming

Place for playing connoisseurs

Filming of the game takes place in Moscow, in the Hunting Lodge of the Neskuchny Garden. It is equipped with a special room with a table, which is divided into 6 sectors in a large radius (for each member of the team of experts) and 13 sectors in a small one - for questions. The questions themselves are in envelopes, which in turn lie on 12 sectors signed with the names of the cities of the participants who sent the question (among these 12 questions there are questions "blitz" and "super blitz"). On the thirteenth sector is a plastic plate on which the number 13 is printed in red (from 2001 to 2011 the Pragmatica number font, from 2011 the Arial number font, since 2013 the number font has become a little bold). In the center of the table is a spinning top with an arrow. The spinning top spins the steward, and the question on which the arrow stops is chosen for the game. The envelope containing the question is placed in a special clothespin located on one of the monitors above the experts themselves. Monitors usually show a photograph or a video shot specifically for the question by the author of the question, a video filmed by correspondents for the question, or drawings, paintings that help experts answer.

Advocates

Every game in the club there are defenders of the interests of connoisseurs, viewers, as well as the Keeper of Traditions. Their opinion is taken into account when resolving disputes.

• Connoisseur Advocate. Appeared in 2002. The advocate of the interests of connoisseurs chooses the best connoisseur of the game and presents him with the "Crystal Atom" prize. At the moment, Andrey Cheremisinov, Director of the Communications Department of Rosatom State Corporation, is the Advocate of the interests of connoisseurs; in some games, Alexei Likhachev, General Director of the corporation, can replace him. Previously, lawyer Mikhail Barshchevsky, lawyer of the Moscow Bar Association Natalia Barshchevskaya, representatives of the general sponsor - MTS company: Mikhail Susov (2003-2004), Igor Stolyarov (2005), Grzegorz Esch (2006), Mikhail Shamolin (2006), Sergey Beshev ( 2007-2008), Alexander Popovsky (2009-2012), director of the Rosatom Communications Department Sergey Novikov (2013-2016).
• Advocate for the interests of TV viewers. Appeared in 1991. The viewers' advocate chooses the best question of the game and determines the value of the viewers' winnings. Since the fall of 2018, the position has been held by Dmitry Breitenbikher, Senior Vice President of VTB Bank. From 2002 to 2009, the vice president of Binbank Grigory Guselnikov was the defender of the interests of the TV viewers team, in 2010 - Dmitry Akulinin, from 2011 to 2012 - vice president of the Bank of Moscow Irina Nikitenko, from 2013 to 2018 - vice president of the bank VTB (formerly "Bank of Moscow") Vladimir Verkhoshinsky, in some games they were replaced by the president of the Bank of Moscow, Mikhail Kuzovlev.
• Tradition Keeper. A position that existed from 2001 to 2016. As the name suggests, he enforces the rules and "traditions" of the club. From May 19, 2001 to December 26, 2009 Mikhail Barshchevsky was the "Keeper of Traditions", from March 27, 2010 to June 19, 2016 - Grigory Guselnikov.

Hall stewards

There are two stewards in the hall, making sure that there are no clues. Also, one of the stewards rotates the top, and the other takes out objects, black boxes and beats the gong. Currently, the stewards are Alexander Bakalov (since 2013) and Polina Lysenko (since 2017), previously the stewards were Nikolay Lgovsky (1984-2001), Andrey Lgovsky (early 1990s), Andrey Lysenko (1993-2013), Alexey Vetyugov ( late 1990s), Boris Fuks (2001-2016), Evgeny Galkin (2011, in the games of the Kazakh version) and others.

Mikhail and Olga Barshchevsky



Alexey Likhachev



Andrey Cheremisinov



Sergey Novikov



Grigory Guselnikov



Vladimir Verkhoshinsky



Dmitry Breitenbikher



Nikolai Lgovsky



Boris Fuchs



Evgeny Galkin



Alexander Bakalov



Polina Lysenko

Questions

General information

The game requires great education and a broad outlook in the field of modern science, the ability to think quickly, in an original and extraordinary way, observation and attentiveness.

Questions belong to different areas of knowledge and have different styles, so the best players will be the most erudite and well-read. In a strong team, harmonious cooperation should be established between people with different ways of thinking, if possible - specialists in different fields. Much depends on training, the ability to understand within the team.

Question types

Sample Questions

• Before you is an ancient Egyptian manuscript; it says about a certain slave: "He hears perfectly with both ears, honest and obedient." This text is regarded as one of the early copies of... what? (Answer: advertisements)
• The board of McDonald's believes that rumors that McDonald's meat dishes are prepared from earthworms can be easily refuted by comparing them to meat. Question: by what criteria? (Answer: for the price, worms cost a lot more)
• According to the humorous calendar of Belyaev and Shtalber, “If this statement were true, This wouldn't taste so good." Guess what the statement is about and name This. (Answer: wine).
• Once, Mark Twain's friend, Harry Duman, borrowed $500, promising to pay it back in a month - of course, if he was still alive. Question: what did Mark Twain do without receiving what he promised in a month? (Answer: Posted Duman's obituary)
• In Ambrose Bierce's fable, a deputy promises his constituents not to steal after receiving office. When it turned out that he was stealing huge sums, the voters demanded an answer. The deputy replied that, yes, he promised not to steal, but did not make another promise. What? (Answer: promises not to lie)
• Jerome K. Jerome compared This with the government, because both are valued only as long as they are good. Name it. (Answer: weather)
• Russian humorist Mikhail Zadornov said that he was not angry with the communists, since they never deceived him. But why, according to him, they did not deceive him? (Answer: because he never believed them anyway)

Game history by years

Vladimir Voroshilov

Boris Kryuk

1975. September 4 - On this day, there was one game with different rules - two families played against each other (as in the popular game "Lucky Chance"). The game consisted of two rounds filmed at each family's home. They united for the sake of a photograph for the family archive.

1976. A top appears, but in early games it was not a question that was chosen, but an answering player. Already this year the game “What? Where? When?" has already changed a lot and was called the "television youth club". Since Vladimir Voroshilov was forbidden to appear on the screen at that time, the first full-fledged release of the TV game was held by Alexander Maslyakov, who in the future will revive the KVN project. The first players were students of Moscow State University, who, when discussing the issue, spoke loudly and smoked. There was no one-minute discussion time limit, each person played for himself, not as a team.

1977. The game finally took on its final form: a spinning top showing a question and a one-minute limit on how long the question could be discussed. The first symbol appeared in the game - the eagle owl Fomka. The first questions were invented by Vladimir Voroshilov himself, and later, when the game became popular, they began to accept questions from the audience. It is known that every day there were bags of letters, each of which had to be answered, the best questions chosen, the authenticity of the facts presented, edited, prepared, if necessary, the necessary items. Of course, one person cannot do such a job, and Voroshilov was assisted by his wife Natalya Stetsenko, who for many years headed the department of correspondence with the audience.

1979. Games began to be held regularly. The term "expert" appeared, now this word has become familiar to describe the participants in the game, the club is now usually called the "club of connoisseurs". Up to this point, there was no specific name for the players. The details of the game rules often changed, but the main prize was always books (which were hung on the Christmas tree during the final game) and a crystal owl.

1982. Introduced a six-point game rule

1983. Instead of the Ostankino television center, the games are being held in a mansion on Herzen Street

1984. A new prize has been introduced - the Crystal Owl. The best player at the end of the year becomes its owner

1987. Hosting the International Games in Bulgaria

1988-1989 International games in Sovincenter. Several teams participate in the game at the same time.

1990. The program begins to leave the Hunting Lodge in the Neskuchny Garden

1991. The game has become more commercialized, that is, it has turned from an "intellectual club" into an "intellectual casino". Experts begin to play for money

1992. Starting this year, there are two series a year - summer and winter. A zero sector appeared, called the "zero sector". It appeared instead of the sector with the largest amount, which was supposed to be for the correct answer. Each question now has a certain “cost”, which can be increased by putting the money won on a certain playing field. Sponsors and lawyers appeared (Mikhail Barshchevsky).

1995. In honor of the 20th anniversary of the game, the Immortal Games are held. The title of Master of the Club has been introduced. Alexander Druz became the first master

1999. The game is temporarily released on the NTV channel. Held Christmas Series

2000. In autumn, an experimental series of games takes place, in which, in addition to connoisseurs and viewers, the Internet team also participates. Using the site www.rambler.ru, registered Internet users during a minute of discussion give their versions of the answer. The most popular version becomes the final answer from the Internet team, and the Internet user who sends the correct version faster than the rest gets the amount that was at stake. The account is indicated in the order "viewers:experts:Internet".

In December, the Anniversary Games are held, in which the existence of the game is at stake. The title of Master is awarded to Maxim Potashev. On December 30, Vladimir Voroshilov played his last game

2001. This year, the host of the game, Vladimir Voroshilov, dies. After that, his adopted son began to play the game - Boris Kryuk. At first he distorted his voice, but soon revealed himself and began to play with his own voice. In the summer, a series is held in which it is decided whether the game will exist without Voroshilov. In winter, the gaming table was updated, games for money were discontinued. From that moment on, the value of questions was determined by telephone voting by viewers (the difference between the number of “like” and “dislike” votes multiplied by 10 rubles; negative sums were equated to zero). At the same time, the thirteenth sector was introduced (in 2000 this sector was called the “Internet sector”).

2002. The game began to be held annually in four series: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. After all the games, the final game of the year is held, in which the best team of experts of the season takes part. In total, 17 games are played per year. The Crystal Owl is now awarded 3 times a year. A new prize has been introduced - the Diamond Owl, which is awarded to the best player of the winning team in the Final of the Year.

2005. Celebration of the 30th anniversary of the game. Victor Sidnev becomes the third master. From now on, in the finals of the anniversary year, the winning team is awarded the Crystal Nest - 6 crystal owls.

2008. From this year, cash prizes for TV viewers have changed. For the first point for his team, the viewer receives 10,000 rubles, for each subsequent point 10 thousand more. Thus, for the sixth point, the viewer receives 60,000 rubles. In the final of the year, Andrey Kozlov was recognized as the fourth master, and his team was awarded a crystal nest, since the 33rd year was recognized as an anniversary.

2013. Viewers' winnings have increased. Depending on the point won, the viewer receives from 50 to 100 thousand rubles. The game is coming out in HD quality.

2015. Since this year, the number of broadcasts per year has increased from 17 to 20. Now the spring, summer and autumn series consist of 5 games. The Academy of TV viewers appears.

2018. For the first time, a series of games "Children of the XXI century" was held, in which teams of schoolchildren took part. The fifth Academician (Radik Khabibullin) and the fifth Master (Elizaveta Ovdeenko) appear in the Club.

Live

One of the main features of the game is that it takes place live. During the live broadcast, viewers could give an answer using MTS phones. However, the cost of the message has increased from 5-6 cents (according to the tariff plan) to 10 rubles. In addition, the first connoisseurs were given a good phone.

Prizes and titles

owls

• crystal owl- The prize was introduced in 1984. Awarded to the best player from the expert team and the best player from the TV viewer team based on the results of a series of games. The first owner of the Crystal Owl was Nurali Latypov. There is a special prize in the Anniversary seasons - crystal nest, representing six small owls on a crystal tray. Awarded to the best team of the anniversary year; thus, each member of the team becomes the owner of the Crystal Owl. The prize was awarded twice - in 2008 to the team of Andrey Kozlov and in 2010 to the team of Balash Kasumov.

Prize winners ( in italics owls obtained as part of the Crystal Nest are highlighted):

1. Alexander Druz - 1990, 1992 (winter), 1995 (winter), 2000 (autumn), 2006 (summer), 2012 (spring);
2. Fedor Dvinyatin - 1991 (summer), 1994 (summer), 2000 (winter), 2002 (spring);
3. Maxim Potashev - 1997 (winter), 2000 (winter), 2000 (winter), 2016 (autumn);
4. Andrey Kozlov - 1992 (summer), 1994 (winter), 2008 (winter);
5. Boris Burda - 1998 (winter), 2000 (winter), 2008 (winter);
6. Dmitry Avdeenko - 2009 (winter), 2010 (winter), 2018 (summer);
7. Julia Lazareva - 2010 (winter), 2015 (autumn), 2017 (spring);
8. Alexey Blinov - 1992 (summer), 1993 (winter);
9. Alexander Rubin - 1995 (summer), 1996 (summer);
10. Valentina Golubeva - 2003 (summer), 2003 (autumn);
11. Ilya Novikov - 2004 (autumn), 2014 (summer);
12. Ales Mukhin - 2004 (spring), 2019 (summer);
13. Vladimir Molchanov - 1991 (winter), 2008 (winter);
14. Nikolai Silantiev - 2008 (winter), 2008 (winter);
15. Elizabeth Ovdeenko - 2010 (winter), 2011 (spring);
16. Mikhail Skipsky - 2010 (winter), 2016 (spring);
17. Nurali Latypov - 1984;
18. Marina Govorushkina - 1985;
19. Leonid Vladimirsky - 1986;
20. Oleg Dolgov - 1987;
21. Neiko Neikov - 1987;
22. Nikita Shangin - 1988;
23. Vladislav Petrushko - 1989;
24. Lyudmila Gerasimova - 1993 (summer);
25. Georgy Zharkov - 1998 (summer);
26. Alexander Byalko - 2000 (winter);
27. Alla Damsker - 2000 (winter);
28. Marina Druz - 2000 (winter);
29. Dmitry Eremin - 2000 (winter);
30. Sergey Tsarkov - 2000 (winter);
31. Victor Sidnev - 2001 (summer);
32. Rovshan Askerov - 2001 (winter);
33. Dmitry Konovalenko - 2002 (summer);
34. Mikhail Moon - 2002 (autumn);
35. Inna Druz - 2003 (winter);
36. Asya Shavinskaya - 2004 (summer);
37. Andrey Bychutkin - 2006 (autumn);
38. Grigory Alkhazov - 2011 (summer);
39. Vladimir Stepanov - 2012 (autumn);
40. Gunel Babayeva - 2013 (summer);
41. Boris Levin - 2014 (autumn);
42. Boris Belozerov - 2017 (autumn);
43. Elman Talybov - 2019 (spring);
44. Alexey Kapustin - 2008 (winter);
45. Igor Kondratyuk - 2008 (winter);
46. Vladimir Antokhin - 2010 (winter);
47. Balash Kasumov - 2010 (winter);
48. Roman Alloyarov - Little Crystal Owl, 1997 (winter).

• diamond owl- it is received by the best player according to the results of the year. The prize was founded in 2002.

• Owl sign- was the predecessor of the Crystal Owl, was awarded several times in the early 1980s.

Prize winners

1. Alexander Byalko;
2. Sergei Ilyin;
3. Ludmila Gerasimova.

Jackets

Red jacket was a sign "immortal club member"- a person who could stay in the club even if his team lost. It was introduced in the 1991 winter series. Jackets were given to all owners of the "Crystal Owl", including connoisseurs who received "owls" before the introduction of the title of "immortal". In the winter series of 1994 and in the spring series of 1995 jackets were awarded to all players of the teams of Mikhail Smirnov and Alexei Blinov. After the conclusion of the Games of the Immortals in 1995, the jackets were abolished.

Shoulder strap of the best captain

This epaulette is issued to the best captain every five years. Introduced in 2000 by Vladimir Voroshilov. In the final game of 2000, he decided to present the club's best captain's epaulette to the most outstanding captains in the history of the game. He did not have enough time on the air in 2000, and Boris Kryuk presented shoulder straps in the summer of 2001, after Voroshilov's death. Prize winners:

1. Andrey Kamorin (2001);
2. Boris Eremin (2001);
3. Vladimir Lutovinov (2001);
4. Viktor Sidnev (2001);
5. Andrey Kozlov (2001);
6. Alexey Blinov (2001);
7. Ales Mukhin (2005);
8. Balash Kasumov (2010).

Cadet epaulette

Awarded by a connoisseur with the shoulder strap of the best captain at the end of each series "Children of the XXI century" to the best captain of this series. Shoulder strap holders:

1. Kirill Emelin (2018);
2. Artyom Savochkin (2019).

Title of Club Master

Since 1995, in each anniversary season of the game, one of the experts has been awarded the title of master. This title is currently held by:

1. Alexander Druz (since 1995);
2. Maxim Potashev (since 2000);
3. Viktor Sidnev (since 2005);
4. Andrey Kozlov (since 2008);
5. Elizaveta Ovdeenko (since 2018).

The title of academician of the club

Similarly with the masters of the club, in the final of 2015 the title of academician was introduced. It is assigned to active viewers who:

• have either a Crystal Owl or a Diamond Owl and have scored six victories over connoisseurs;
• twice awarded either the Crystal Owl or the Diamond Owl, regardless of the number of victories over connoisseurs.

Academics are always invited to the Club for the Series Finals and Year Finals, whether their questions are at the table or not. In case of TV viewers' victory, academicians, like masters, take a collective part in choosing the winner of the final prize. This title is currently held by:

1. Sergei Chevdar from Chornomorsk, Ukraine (winner of the Crystal Owl);
2. Svetlana Sumachakova from Gorno-Altaisk, Republic of Altai (two-time winner of the Crystal Owl);
3. Tatyana Medvedeva from Saratov (winner of the "Diamond Owl");
4. Zhanna Polyanskaya from Syktyvkar, Komi Republic (winner of the Diamond Owl);
5. Radik Khabibullin from the village of Popovka, Perm Territory (winner of the Crystal Owl), since October 28, 2018.

Prize for the brightest answer

In the final game of 2015, for the first time, a special prize was awarded for the brightest answer of the year. It is a gold-colored cufflink with the image of an owl. The prize is awarded annually to a connoisseur who, thanks to insight and out-of-the-box thinking, was able to give a bright answer at a crucial moment. Prize winners:

1. Alena Povysheva (2015, question about the shape of the patisson in the third game of the Winter Series)
2. Boris Belozyorov (2016, super blitz question about Ilya Oblomov in the third game of the Summer Series)
3. Elizaveta Ovdeenko (2017, blitz question about Ramon Gomez de la Serna's gregars in the second game of the Winter Series)
4. Elizaveta Ovdeenko (2018, question about the parent of the rhyme in the fourth game of the Winter Series)

Other prizes and awards

• Insignia "For services to the game" What? Where? When? "" - was awarded on May 14, 2005 to "the best expert of all times and peoples" Alexander Druz on the occasion of his 50th birthday, which fell on May 10. In the same game, he was presented with a Scottish Fold kitten.
• “For the will to win” (“Diamond Snake”) - was awarded on December 24, 2005 to Andrei Kozlov, who, after losing on November 19, 2005, throughout the next game proved the correctness of his incorrect answer - he stuffed the snake with rice according to his own recipe.
• Medal for 50 Games - Awarded on April 15, 2018 to Viktor Sidnev for his 50th participation in a TV game. On the same day, Andrei Kozlov, Alexei Kapustin and Maxim Potashev received the same medals for participation in more than 50 games. This medal could also be received by the old-timer of the club Alexander Druz, who had played 91 games at that time, but he was offered a new medal when he sat down as a player for the 100th time. On June 30, 2019, the medal was presented to Ales Mukhin.

pauses

For breaks in the game, various pauses are used to cheer up the team of connoisseurs:

• Musical pause - the host takes this pause after the third round and later, except for those moments when the score is 3:0 in favor of the experts.
• Coffee break - held from March 4, 2018, connoisseurs are served coffee brand Ambassador.
• Earlier in the game there was a Tea Break, which was usually held when the time is 23:00-0:00 (in winter time earlier). They served tea brand Ahmad - the sponsor of the TV game show.

Music in the game

Here is a list of all the music themes that have been used in the gameplay before and now:

• On December 30, 2000, as part of the Last Tour season, a game took place that decided the fate of the club. If the connoisseurs lost, it is unlikely that we would see the game again. The general director of ORT Konstantin Ernst was even present in the hall.
• After the death of Vladimir Voroshilov, the fate of the game was under a big question: who will lead the game? The program returned to the air "on schedule" - The summer series of 2001 was held under the question "To be or not to be a game without Voroshilov?". The Club will continue to exist if the connoisseurs win the final game, and also if the audience by a majority votes for the continuation of the Club. Connoisseurs won with a score of 6:4, and 91% of the audience voted for the "Be" option. The series of games was entirely dedicated to the creator of the game, Vladimir Voroshilov.
• Since 2001, the game has been hosted by Boris Kryuk, but he spent the Summer Series of the same year with a processed understated voice. No one knew who was leading the game, initially it was thought that Hook's cousin was the host. In view of such uncertainty, the host was addressed in this way - “Mr. Leading”. This tradition has been preserved to this day.
• The winter series of 2001 opened the game in a completely new way. The studio has been revamped to a more modern look, and the connoisseurs no longer gamble. From now on, only the best connoisseurs with spectators receive cash prizes along with Owls.
• Since the 2002 season, four episodes have been aired: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Previously, only the Summer and Winter Series were played.
• In the second game of the 2002 summer series, someone's cell phone rang in the audience.
• According to the host of the game, Boris Kryuk, if a team of experts wins in the final of the year, then almost always with a score of 6:5, and if it loses, then most often with a score of 6:3.
• The shortest game (41 minutes) was on April 10, 2010 - then the presenter did not take a musical break.
• On April 17, 2010, for the first time, one of the players of Andrei Kozlov's team, Igor Kondratyuk, played via Skype, due to the inability to fly to Moscow due to an ash cloud from a volcanic eruption. The team won this game. This is the first time that a club expert participated in the discussion in absentia.
• On May 28, 1994, the team of Alexei Vavilov, with a score of 0:5 in favor of the viewers, took 6 questions in a row and won with a score of 6:5. The situation was practically repeated in the team of Alexei Blinov on April 12, 2008, with the exception of the initial score of 1:5.
• In the final game of 2008, Boris Kryuk, the host of the game, went to the hall for the first time to see the experts.
• In the final of 2008, the player who was supposed to answer the questions of the super blitz was chosen by a top.
• In the final game of 2010 in the thirteenth sector, a question was asked not from the Internet, but invented by the presenter himself. The question sounded like this: “We try the nut on the tooth - it doesn’t give in. We are looking for a heavier object nearby, but we do not find such an object. We turn the nut over, examine it in the light until we find a small crack in the shell, and, putting the shell so that the crack is on top, we hit it with force and either split it or make sure that the crack turned out to be false. “Who and about what said all this?" Dmitry Avdeenko answered it correctly, and the correct answer was “This is a very beautiful metaphor for what is happening here and now. The nut in this case is a question, and we are trying to find a weak point in it, open it to find the right answer. And, most likely, Vladimir Yakovlevich Voroshilov proposed such a metaphor.
• In 2008, at the final of the year, the 33rd game was recognized by the masters as an anniversary game, but with one caveat, “if the 66th game is also recognized as an anniversary game.”
• In 2011, the 13th sector fell out in the first game of the autumn series of the game, but it had to be canceled due to technical problems. For the first time in the history of the game, such an incident occurred in the final game of the 2007 summer series. The next incident occurred in the first game of the spring 2014 series - again due to technical issues, possibly related to updating the screen design.
• In the 2013 Final, before the start of the game, the team of Ales Mukhin and personally Ilya Novikov, who had previously lost the game in the Super Blitz in the Decisive Round, tried to appeal the fatal question. After lengthy discussions and disputes (about 15 minutes), Mikhail Barshchevsky advised to immediately replay the issue. The host supported the idea and asked the audience in the hall whether to replay the question or not, and the decision would be made if at least 7 votes were received. As a result, 9 spectators voted "for", two "against", one spectator had to abstain due to the fact that she did not see the previous game. Only after the vote, the Host clarified that if Mukhin's team played, then those who voted "for" decided to give up the question with their own voice without a possible win. The question from the 13th sector was chosen as a question for replay. It contained a question not from the Internet, but from the Host himself. Unlike the 2010 Finals, Boris Kryuk, like the Zero sector, went to Ilya Novikov, and the hourglass played the role of a “minute for reflection”. The question was lost, and the team of Konstantin Ruder entered the final game.
• In the final game of 2013, I played a question from Pavel Boytsov, who came to Moscow with his family, his son was with him in the hall. During the announcement of the correct answer, the junior representative of the family started to open the black box too early, which was followed by a rather violent reaction from the Host. The case became a meme and gained great popularity outside the audience of “What? Where? When?".
• April 12, 2014, according to the results of the final game of the Spring Series, Svetlana Sumachakova from Gorno-Altaisk became the first viewer in the history of “What? Where? When?" - two-time winner of the Crystal Owl.
• September 7, 2014, in the first game of the Autumn Series, Irina Nizamova became the first female expert in the history of “What? Where? When? ”, which won the super blitz. The peculiarity of the fact is also that Irina was a reserve player of the Rosatom team, and this game was the debut for Irina.
• On September 13, 2014, in the second game of the Autumn Series, the team of Balash Kasumov felt the effect of the "butterfly wing". In the 13th sector, due to the limited number of lines displayed on the screen, the question was far from being shown in full. Even so, there was a correct version at the table, but the connoisseurs gave the wrong answer. After some time, it was decided to remove the question of the 13th sector, and the sector itself to be removed from the table, although it was possible to choose another question from the Internet. Then a number of circumstances followed: during the replay of the round, a top was touched, which could decide the fate of the game; on the chosen question, the team did not take an extra minute and lost a point, after which there was such a situation on the table that with a probability of 12/13 the next question would be a super blitz; Elizaveta Ovdeenko makes a very annoying mistake on the third question of the super blitz, although she was well versed in the field of knowledge of the question. As a result, the negligence of technical editors led to the defeat and the team's exit from the season.
• On April 30, 2017, singer Philip Kirkorov received the "Diamond Owl" on the occasion of his anniversary, as well as for "a whole cascade of bright musical pauses."
• On July 2, 2017, the team of Rovshan Askerov lost with a score of 0:6. This is the first recorded case when a team ends the game with such a score without a decisive round, that is, without correctly answering 6 questions in a row.
• In the final game of 2018, the Diamond Owl was awarded to Konstantin Bogatsky from the German city of Kempten. Konstantin was not able to come to the game, but immediately after the award ceremony, they got in touch with him and were able to personally congratulate him on the air.

Parodies

• In one of the episodes of the TV show "Jolly Fellows" a parody of "What? Where? When?". The presenter Vladimir Voroshilov was parodied by Leonid Sergeev, and the role of the connoisseur was played by Nurali Latypov, who later became one of the club members and the first owner of a crystal owl.
• Numerous parodies of “What? Where? When?" were shown in KVN. In one of the parodies, Rovshan Askerov was an invited participant. And in 2018, the KVN Star Team took part in the game itself.
• A parody of the program was contained in one of the episodes of the TV program "Dolls" (1997).
• Several parodies were also made by the participants of the OSP-studio program. In addition to parodies of the game itself (connoisseurs Boris Burda, Alexander Byalko and Alexander Druz were parodied), a parody of the program “Without a tie” was also shown with the participation of connoisseurs.
• On the stage, the game was parodied by Vladimir Vinokur (in the program “Is there an extra ticket”) and Maxim Galkin. According to Galkin, the program was led by Vladimir Putin, who read letters from George Bush, Boris Berezovsky and Gerhard Schroeder, and Boris Yeltsin, Viktor Chernomyrdin, Grigory Yavlinsky and Valeria Novodvorskaya were experts.
• Three TV game parodies of “What? Where? When" were in the TV show "Big Difference".
• A whole episode of the TV show “Mult Personality” (May 8, 2012) consisted of a parody of the game, where the connoisseurs were Dmitry Dibrov, Anastasia Volochkova, Gennady Onishchenko, Tina Kandelaki and Dmitry Guberniev, the team captain was Alexander Lukashenko, and the host was Vladimir Zhirinovsky.
• It was parodied several times by the Comedy Club program, and on New Year's Eve 2010, some connoisseurs (including Alexander Druz) were depicted as 3D puppets in the ProjectorParisHilton program. The program hosts themselves, whose broadcast often came right before “What? Where? When”, several times they parodied Boris Kryuk’s introduction at the end of their program, and once the viewers really believed what was happening.

Awards

• TEFI-1997 in the "Entertainment program" nomination
• TEFI-2001 in the TV Game nomination
• TEFI-2011 in the TV Game. Intellectual competition»
• TEFI-2014 in the TV Game nomination
• TEFI-2016 in the TV Game nomination
• TEFI-2018 in the TV Game nomination

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Notes

Links

• Directory of links to regional clubs of intellectual games
• Database of questions asked in sports tournaments on “What? Where? When?”, “Brain Ring” and “Own Game”

What? Where? When?

Russian TV games

• The question was in the TV game “What? Where? When?" 05/18/2007:

  Representatives of different countries in national clothes were depicted on the facade of the building of the land cadet corps in St. Petersburg. And only the representative of one European country the artist decided to draw not in national clothes, but naked with a piece of cloth in his hands.
  Attention, question: What country did this naked man represent?

  Answer:

  When the head of this corps, Major General Anhalt, asked the artist why this man was naked, the artist replied: “This is a Frenchman, Your Excellency! Their fashion changes every day.

  Experts lost the question.

  
  
• The question was in the TV game “What? Where? When?" 12/31/1994:

  Can you name the 140 cm long, 80 cm wide, 45 cm high device that the 17th century Dutch tried to lower their blood pressure with?

  Answer:

  The Dutch of the 17th century, escaping from high blood pressure ... slept sitting up. The device for this was simply a short bed.

  Alexey Blinov's team played. Viewer win.

  
  
• The question was in the TV game “What? Where? When?" 05/28/2004:

  Attention, question: Guess the Russian folk riddle:
  The head is there, the brain is not.
  There are ears, but no hearing.
  There is a back, no belly.

  Answer:

  The head is there, the brain is not.
  There are ears, but no hearing.
  There is a back, no belly. This is a bast!

  Experts answered incorrectly.

  
  
• The question was in the TV game “What? Where? When?" 09/12/1989:

  What exactly did Mary Quant cut off with ordinary scissors, for which she received the Order of the British Empire?

  Answer:

  In 1963, Wells girl Mary Quant cut off the hem of her skirt. For the invention of the mini fashion, she was awarded the Order of the British Empire.

  Nurali Latypov answered, but the version of the experts turned out to be wrong.

  
  
• The question was in the TV game “What? Where? When?" 12/21/1996:

  According to Egyptian legend, the pharaoh once instructed his priests to find a word that would contain all the wisdom of the world. The word, which is now interpreted by the modern philosophical dictionary as "a zone within which a given quality can be modified, while maintaining its essential characteristics." Attention, question: Find this word.

  Answer:

  The word that the priests found that "would contain all the wisdom of the world" is the word ... measure.

  Maxim Potashev gave the wrong answer, the experts lost.

  
  
• The question was in the TV game “What? Where? When?" 01/05/2000:

  "Life is a tragedy for those who feel."
  Attention, the question: And for whom is life a comedy, from the point of view of the Finnish writer Larny Marty?

  Answer:

  Larny Marty said: "Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think!"

  Rovshan Askerov answered incorrectly.

  
  
• The question was in the TV game “What? Where? When?" 03/15/2003:

  In the second half of the 19th century, many hairdressers opened in Moscow.
  Why was it customary in those days to install a large aquarium in the center of the hall? What was it for?

  Answer:

  There were leeches in the aquariums, because at that time some medical services were provided in the hairdressers.

  Rookie team! The question was "cut through".

  
  
• The question was in the TV game “What? Where? When?" 12/05/1992:

  In an old Japanese temple, on New Year's Eve, the bells ring exactly one hundred and eight strokes. And with the last, 108 stroke, the Japanese, as it were, is born again.
  Attention, the question is: What does each stroke of the New Year's bell mean for the Japanese?

  Answer:

  On New Year's Eve, the Japanese are born again. According to legend, each Japanese has 108 sins, and with each stroke of the bell, the Japanese is cleansed of one of his vices.

  Leonid Klimovich brought the team a point.

  
  
• The question was in the TV game “What? Where? When?" 04/23/1980:

  Imagine a whalebone… or several whalebones! These objects in life were, so to speak, in blue. And this blue is, so to speak, in something red.
  Attention, question: Name this blue and this red?