It's the phrase "What? Where? When?" For more than 40 years we have been associated with a TV game, in which the intellectual elite Club of "experts" participates. Questions sent by viewers are always very unusual, interesting and tricky.
I.I. Rusanova made up of them most interesting book, which can be a guide for beginners. True, the author, as expected, first gives questions, and at the end of the chapter answers, but we, in order to save you time searching, will give them right away. So…
1. Why does a heron, when pecking at a fish, do not leave the place?
Because at this time, a kind of “dandruff” falls from it, on which fish and frogs “peck”.
2. Why did the duelists keep left hand lifted up?
Since duels usually took place at dusk, either at dawn or in the evening, they held a lantern in their left hand.
3. Why did Alexander the Great require his soldiers to shave their beards?
So that in battle the enemy could not grab them by the beard. This helped to increase the combat capability of the troops.
4. Why typhoons used to be given female names?
Typhoon (Chinese tai feng - big wind) - so called on Far East tropical cyclones of storm and hurricane force. The name of the first schooner hit by a typhoon was "Maria", and since then, typhoons have been assigned predominantly female names.
5. Why do cows like to graze on the railway embankment?
Usually railway sleepers are impregnated with tar, consisting of petroleum resins. The smell of tar repels mosquitoes and other insects that bite cows.
6. Which woman did not sleep at night for 2 years, 8 months and 4 weeks?
This is a character Arabian tales"1001 Nights" Queen Scheherazade (or, as we are more accustomed to, Scheherazade). Her husband, King Shahriyar, after treason former wife turned against all women. Every night he took new wife and executed her the next morning. The cunning Scheherazade began to tell a fairy tale at night and interrupted it at the very interesting place. This went on for 1001 nights. During this time, Shahriyar fell in love with the wise queen, and she became his faithful companion.
7. From which foot did Cinderella lose her shoe - from the right or from the left?
In the 17th century, when Charles Perrault, the author of this tale, lived, the shoes for both feet were the same, without distinction for the right and left. Division was introduced only in the 19th century. By the way, her shoe was not crystal at all, it’s just that in some French editions, instead of the word vair - “fur for the trim”, it was mistakenly printed verre - “glass”, and therefore in the translations of this tale into other languages, including Russian, appeared "glass slipper".
8. Where did the ancient Romans look before paying their debts?
In ancient Rome, the date of payment of debts was kalends - the first day of the month. The word "calendar" (from Latin calendarium) literally means "debt book".
9. What was the name of the stick among the ancient muleteers?
In ancient Rome, a pointed stick used to drive animals was called a stimulus (from Latin stimulus). The word "stimulus" has acquired figurative meaning- now we call this the motivating reason (an incentive to work, an incentive to win).
10. What is the main word in modern telephone conversations and explain the connection between him and 18th century English sailors.
Until the beginning of the last century, the word "hello", used in maritime practice, meant "listen"; it was shouted into the mouthpiece of another ship. It is with this word that we start a conversation on the phone and pronounce it when it is hard to hear.
11. Why is it customary for Arabs to say that the distance between truth and falsehood is only five fingers?
Because the distance between the ear and the eye is equal to the width of the palm.
12. In the last century, American miners, descending into the mine, took cages with canaries with them. What was it for?
Canaries played the role of a kind of "sensor" of harmful gases. When their level rose, the canaries died, and the miners rose to the surface, because there was a danger of an explosion.
13. Why are there such short acts in Molière's comedies - lasting no more than half an hour each?
In Molière's time, the stage was lit by candles, and a candle burns out in about half an hour.
14. When one person speaks, this is a monologue, and two people speak a dialogue. What do you call a conversation of six people?
In Greek, dialogue means "conversation, conversation", so six people will also have a dialogue.
15. What will happen to a matador if instead of an angry bull he is attacked by an angry cow. Justify your answer!
When the bull is furious, his eyes are filled with blood, he sees almost nothing, and when attacking, he simply closes his eyes. This does not happen with a cow, so she perfectly sees the object of attack.
16. Once Pythagoras asked his students a question: what needs to be done in order for a valuable thought to come to mind.
The correct answer given by the teacher himself made his students very happy. So, what needs to be done when doing science so that a valuable thought comes to mind?
According to Pythagoras, for this you just need to relax.
17. What is the name of a French dish made from all sorts of things: different varieties greens, meat, etc.?
This dish is called potpourri in French. A piece of music consisting of various melodies also began to be called famous operas, operettas and songs.
18. What is in the black box is a fake, fake and deceit.
It is made by men but used by women. This scam is over 200 years old, but we still continue to pay money for it. What is in the box?
This is bijouterie - jewelry made from non-precious stones and metals. Its heyday came in the 18th century, when there was a great need to imitate precious jewelry. Subsequently, a wide variety of materials began to be used for the manufacture of jewelry: glass, wood, leather, plastic, etc. Jewelry with Swarovski crystal crystals is especially valued, which, thanks to a special processing technology, are difficult to distinguish from real diamonds.
19. Away from the city of Snezhnogorsk, in a dense forest, there is a hut for hunters and fishermen, which is called "winter hut".
Usually, leaving there after hunting or fishing, people leave a supply of food. How can you store fresh potatoes so they don't freeze?
Potatoes need to be put in a plastic bag, tightly tied and lowered into water under ice. Since the water is always at a positive temperature, potatoes can be perfectly stored for a long time.
20. Most popular view urban transport in London in the 19th century were cabs - hired carriages.
However, in the second half of the century, a certain invention appeared, which caused violent protests among English cabmen. Which?
It was an umbrella that actually appeared in China as early as the 11th century BC. and served to protect from the sun. The English businessman Jonas Hanway took it outside for the first time in the rain, and mass production of this particularly relevant item for England immediately began. And cabmen were just afraid that they would have fewer customers.
21. Name and show the item of clothing that was not in the wardrobe of the Romans before they conquered the northern peoples.
Pants were such a novelty for the Romans, or, speaking modern language, trousers. Their name among the northern peoples was similar: among the Celts - "marriage", among the Germans - "brokes", among the Dutch - "brock".
22. This technical innovation appeared in London in 1911, but the Londoners were wary of it.
Then the management, to prove its safety, hired a disabled person on a wooden crutch to demonstrate its advantages. After that, everyone began to use the novelty and continue to this day. What it is?
This is an escalator at a subway station, the safety of which was convincingly proved by a disabled person on a wooden crutch.
23. In Japan, where earthquakes are frequent, reinforced concrete buildings collapse during earthquakes, and pagodas stand. Why?
In each pagoda, builders hung a special long wooden beam from top to bottom, equipped with a load at the end, and the oscillation frequency of this kind of pendulum was chosen so that during an earthquake the beam would swing in antiphase with the building itself. This made it possible to dampen the vibrations caused by the earthquake. The same principle is used today in vibration dampers mounted on tall factory chimneys and TV towers.
24. The Japanese concern Toyota pays remuneration to its personnel for inventions and improvements. What pays the smallest reward?
Remuneration, albeit the smallest, is paid even for those inventions that have no practical application.
25. The item in the black box is a masterpiece that was invented in ancient Babylon and has come down to us unchanged. What is this?
This is a brick. Bricks appeared in Ancient Babylon, and it was there that the corresponding standard was first approved for them, which allowed and still allows building any buildings and structures from bricks.
26. The Swedish lake Holmsø was polluted by acid rain and industrial waste.
Ecologists have proposed to restore life in it using a large number of lime. What ingenious way did the local authorities find to solve this problem?
On the shore of this lake is a confectionery factory. In her yard constantly accumulates a huge amount eggshell- excellent lime material. If this shell is thrown into the lake, then, according to scientists, it will gradually clear it of industrial pollution.
27. In 1769, the inhabitants of American Boston discovered that mail from England to Boston was delivered two weeks later than from Boston to England. Who is responsible for this violation?
The culprit was the current: to England, ships went with the flow, and from England, against the flow. In 1769, the Boston City Council complained to King George III that mail from England was constantly delayed. B. Franklin, eminent American political figure and a scientist who was at that time Under-Secretary of the Post Office for the Colonies, determined to find out the reasons for this, and by studying logbooks and charts of whaling ships, made a map of the Gulf Stream, a powerful warm current in the Atlantic Ocean.
28. In the first half of the 15th century, there were only a few tens of thousands of handwritten books throughout Europe, and by 1500 the number of printed books was already more than 9 million.
This dramatic increase in the number of books was facilitated by three inventions made in different centuries: 1) the invention of paper and its use instead of expensive parchment, 2) the invention and improvement of fonts, as well as the invention of a movable metal type, when lines in a typesetting frame were made up of pre-cast letters and signs. What was the third invention?
It was the invention and distribution of glasses that made it possible to change (mostly reduce) font sizes. True, the English scientist Roger Bacon wrote about glasses back in the 13th century, and ancient authors also mentioned polished natural crystals that could improve eyesight.
29. "The doctor has three tools"
“The doctor has three tools,” wrote the great Arab scholar, philosopher and physician of the 10th century, Avicenna. “The first is a knife, the second is a plant, and the third is the main thing ...” What tool, according to Avicenna, was the doctor’s main tool!
This word. No wonder in Ancient Rus' people who knew how to sincerely talk, persuade, speak, calm others, were called doctors from the word "lie." True, then it simply meant "to speak."
30. Usually we use table napkins, or wipers, as they were called in Rus'. And how were such napkins used in ancient Rome?
In ancient Rome, two napkins were served to each guest. The one that is smaller, he used during meals. As you know, the feasts in ancient Rome were plentiful, with dozens of changes of dishes, and in the second napkin, a larger one, the guest could take the treat home.
This is the standard of one kilogram - a cylinder made of platinum-iridium alloy, which is stored near Paris in International Bureau weights and measures founded in 1875.
33. The famous castle of Elsinore, where the action of the tragedy "Hamlet" is played out, stands on the shore of the strait.
In the 15th-18th centuries, all ships passing through the strait had to pay a duty to the Danish kings, depending on the value of the goods. Moreover, each captain himself reported on the cost of his cargo. What method did the royal treasury use to do this with absolute honesty?
The Danish king reserved the right to purchase any cargo according to the value that the captain named, and if it turned out to be suspiciously low, the king immediately laid out the named amount, and the captain had only to sail with empty holds.
Leading. Good afternoon, dear experts! It is very pleasant that the most knowledgeable, the most inquisitive and the most attentive have gathered here. So, we have three gaming tables, they have flags of different colors. The game will have several rounds on such topics: geography, music, wildlife, literature, riddles. Let's start with a round general issues. Questions will be asked to three teams at the same time, at the signal "The minute has gone" you start the discussion. The first team to raise the flag answers.
Round of General Questions
1. You know everything mighty hero Ilya Muromets. How many years did Ilya lie on the stove? (33 years)
2. Which branch does not grow on a tree? (Railway)
3. Remember what spell Mowgli knew? ("You and I are of the same blood - you and I")
4. Remember in which A. S. Pushkin's fairy tale was introduced fundamentally new system wages. Show her. (Three clicks)
5. It is cold in winter, so we dress warmly - felt boots, fur coats, hats. Does a fur coat keep you warm in winter? (No, she only keeps warm)
6. Who has a mustache longer than their legs? (At the cockroach)
7. What is this herb that even the blind recognize? (Nettle)
8. What did the poodle Artemon wear on his front paw from A. Tolstoy's fairy tale "The Golden Key"? (Silver watch)
9. What is the name of the living quarters for the crew on the ship? (Cockpit)
10. In ancient Rus', silver bars served as money. They were called hryvnias. If a thing cost less than the whole bar, then a part of it was cut off. What was the name of the severed part of the silver bar? (Ruble)
Round of blitz questions
1. What do a rider and a rooster have in common? (Spurs)
2. What kind of fuel is mined in the swamp? (Peat)
3. Where do they dance lezginka? (In Georgia)
1. Under which bush did the hare sit during the rain? (under wet)
3. What is chardash? (Hungarian dance)
1. How can you carry water in a sieve? (freezing)
2. What country is worn on the head? (Panama)
3. When are eggs tasty? (when you eat them)
Geographic Round
1. The deepest lake in the world. (Baikal)
2. Which continent has no rivers? (In Antarctica)
3. Between what two identical letters can you put a small horse and get the name of the country? (Japan)
4. Name the star closest to Earth. This star is visible during the daytime. (Sun)
Music Round
1. What notes can measure the distance? (Mi-la-mi)
2. Which Austrian composer has already given concerts at the age of six? (Mozart)
3. Which composer composed and played his works when he was deaf? (Beethoven)
4. What two notes grow in the garden? (Beans)
5. What song did the short babies sing when they flew on hot-air balloon with the unknown? ("In the grass Grasshopper sat")
Round "Wildlife World"
1. What bird breeds chicks in any frost? (Crossbill)
2. During the flight of these birds, it seems that a continuous flame is moving. What is this bird? (Flamingo)
3. Which bird flies the fastest? (Strizh, up to 140 km/h)
4. From what poisonous plant is the medicine used for heart disease prepared? (Lily of the valley)
5. What plants do not have roots, stems, leaves, flowers? (At algae)
6. What wood is used to make skis? (birch)
7. The footprint of which predatory beast is similar to the footprint of a person? (bear)
8. What wood are matches made of? (From aspen)
9. The juice of which plant helps with mosquito bites? (parsley)
Literary Round
1. To whom from literary heroes own walking shoes and a magic staff? (to Little Muck)
2. Name three Russians epic heroes. (Dobrynya Nikitich, Ilya Muromets, Alyosha Popovich)
3. What medicine did Malvina Pinocchio want to give? (castor oil)
4. What academic title did the owner of the Karabas-Barabas puppet theater have? (Doctor of puppet science)
5. What did Pinocchio love more than anything in the world? (Scary Adventures)
6. What kind of cash coin was used by the inhabitants of the town from the fairy tale "The Golden Key"? (Soldo)
7. "Swayed, swayed on thin legs, stepped once, stepped another, hop-hop, straight to the door through the threshold and into the street." Who is this? (Pinocchio)
8. “A long, wet, wet man came out with a small, small face, as wrinkled as a morel mushroom.” Who is this? (Seller of medicinal leeches Duremar)
9. Who was Gulliver by profession? (by the ship's doctor)
Round of riddles
1. It won’t knock, it won’t blur, but it will enter the window. (Dawn)
2. Stronger than the sun, weaker than the wind, no legs, but walking, no eyes, but crying. (Cloud)
3. The fur coat is new, but there is a hole in the hem. (hole)
4. Curls around the nose, but is not given in the hands. (Smell)
5. Blue uniform, yellow lining, and sweet in the middle. (Plum)
6. Not the sea, not the river, but worried. (Spikes in the field)
7. She will be born in water,
But a strange fate
She is afraid of water
And it always dies. (Salt)
8. Sits on a spoon, legs hanging down. (Noodles)
9. What kind of beast:
White as snow
Puffed up like fur
walks with shovels,
And eats with a horn. (Goose)
10. Sir, but not a hare, with hooves, but not a horse. (Donkey)
11. Many arms, but one leg. (Tree)
12. Two daughters, two mothers, and a grandmother and granddaughter. How many? (Three)
Question 1: A unique invention was recently presented in the States. Now a test sample has been made, its size is only five by seven centimeters, and its thickness is half a centimeter. The experimental copy is made of plastic, and when their production is put on stream, they are supposed to be made from ordinary cardboard. A chip will be inserted into the cardboard, and after performing one or more certain actions, it can be thrown away. It will cost no more than two or three dollars. And now attention, the question is, with which food product do most of us associate this. Question 3: Joke lovers suggest that if these two made a lot of money, got offices, secretaries, etc., then on their business cards one could read the names "Benjamin" and "Fifty dollars". By what names do we know them? Question 4: The news of the death of this foreigner in January 1596 quickly spread throughout Spain. Seville burned with the fire of illumination, and King Philip declared that he felt as good as ever since Bartholomew night. Who is this man? Question 5: The writer Alfred Jarry lived in a room with a very low ceiling. According to Roger Shattuck, it was said about this room that only SHE could be served on the table in it. Vadim Batyuk notes that SHE acts as a symbol of purposefulness and focusing one's eyes on the goal. Name her.Answer: Flounder.
A comment: The most flat food. :-).
Source(s):
1. F. Baker. Absinthe. - M .: New Literary Review, 2002. - P. 38.
2. http://www.sunhome.ru/religion/57320
Answer: water polo player.
A comment: is an anagram for AUSTRALOPITECUS; couples met in the question: orange - spaniel; bobsleigh - baseball and hints of anagrams: if - sat down, already - a hedgehog.
Source(s): relevant articles in SES and general knowledge.
Question 9: IT has a great many epithets. For example, it has been compared to "toad in love", "thigh of a frightened nymph", "dreamy flea", "frightened mouse" and even "Lisette's kiss". I'm not asking what it is. Give a phrase known to you from childhood to remember THIS. Question 11: A little sad...In the "women's autoforum" on humorous sites, there are such messages: "Does anyone know where THIS comes from to the pedal?". What is being summed up - no need to answer. Name the company with the help of which IT is brought to Belarus. Question 12: IN Library of Alexandria ITS functions were performed by a large square sandbox in the middle of one of the rooms. Name her.
Answer:[Blackboard.
A comment: As you know, many ancient philosophers studied at the Alexandria Library. They wrote or drew in it on a huge sandbox. Anything written could be erased very easily.
Source(s): Film "Agora".
Question 13: Commenting on the disastrous start of the Russian national team in the men's biathlon relay at the last World Championships, Dmitry Guberniev complained that "even Prima sets us HEAT." What did we replace with "sets the heat"?Answer: Gives a smoke.
A comment: In this pun, Guberniev plays on the name of the Ukrainian biathlete Artem Prima and the name of Prima brand cigarettes. "Set the heat" and "light up" are synonymous phraseological phrases.
Source(s):
1. Broadcast of the men's relay race of the World Championship on the channel "Russia-2", 03/14/2015
2. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/give_a light
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GAME "WHAT? WHERE? WHEN?"
(7th-9th grades)
Rules of the game
Questions for the game
Assorted questions.
Questions and questions:
Questions from the field of history:
1. Explain the meaning of the words:
- veche (people's assembly);
- magi (priests);
figure
How the prophetic Oleg is now going
Vsevolod the Big Nest.)
GAME "WHAT? WHERE? WHEN?"
(7th-9th grades)
Several teams of 6 people can take part.
Teams choose a captain and come up with a name. The game is played in a large room, on the walls of which are hung
posters with the name of the game, colorfully designed images of question marks, drawings of an owl, etc.On the stage there is a table for the presenter. Behind the leader's place is a scoreboard for displaying the score of the game. During the game, all teams
are sitting in the hall. Each team at a separate table. Teams should familiarize themselves with the rules of the game, the host reminds them.
Rules of the game
The facilitator reads the question and gives one minute for discussion to all teams. After a minute, a sound signal sounds, after which, within 20 seconds, the teams must submit their answers in writing to the moderator. After 20 seconds, a second beep sounds, after which responses from commands are no longer accepted. The facilitator quickly looks through the sheets with the answers of the teams and reads out, without naming the teams, the “original answers”.
Then he pronounces the correct answer, and the results of the first question are recorded on the scoreboard.
If the question is answered correctly, the team receives one point.
Question rating is written in parentheses - the number of teams that did not answer the question. The game continues, the next question is asked.
After passing half of the game, a musical pause is organized to relieve and relieve tension. It can be some number performed by the guys. After musical break the game is restarted. The team that won the game (which scored the most points) is awarded with commemorative medals of the winners, nominal diplomas of the champions of the game “What? Where? When? ”, As well as prizes.
If two teams have the same number of points, the total rating of all questions is taken into account to determine the winner.
Whichever team has the most wins the game.
Questions for the game
Assorted questions.
1. Name the star closest to the earth. (Sun.)
2. Name the largest plucked string musical instrument. (Harp.)
3. Name the very first female astronaut. (V.N. Nikolaeva-Tereshkova.)
4. Name the most high mountain our planet. (Chomolungma or Everest, 8848 m.)
5. Name the most general ledger Muslims. (Koran.)
6. Name the smallest bird. (Hummingbird, less than 2 grams.)
7. What is the most common tree in Russia. (Larch. It makes up 45% of forests.)
8. Name the largest berry. (Watermelon.)
9. What is the most common name on the pages of the works of Kir Bulychev. (Alice.)
10. Name the smallest monetary unit in USA. (Cent.)
11. What is the name of the highest ocean wave? (Tsunami.)
12. Name the most popular vehicle V East Asia. (Bike.)
13. Name the most common drink to quench your thirst. (Water.)
14. Name the largest island on the planet. (Greenland.)
15. Name the most frequently published book in the world. (Bible.)
16. Name the most common shoes in Russia XVIII century. (bast shoes.)
17. What is the most fun circus profession. (Clown.)
18. Name the most popular flower in Holland. (Tulip.)
Questions from the field of literature.
1. Beauty is life. (N.G. Chernyshevsky. This formula is given in the dissertation “Aesthetic Relations of Art to Activity.)
2. You may not be a poet, but you must be a citizen. (N.A. Nekrasov. "The Poet and the Citizen".)
3. Born to crawl cannot fly. (M. Gorky. "Song of the Falcon".)
4. Man - it sounds proud! (M. Gorky. "At the bottom".)
5. I want a pen to be equated with a bayonet. (V.V. Mayakovsky. "Home".)
6. No one will embrace the immensity. (Aphorism from "The Fruits of Thoughts" by Kozma Prutkov.)
7. You are heavy, Monomakh's hat. (From the tragedy of A.S. Pushkin "Boris Godunov".)
8. Signed, so off your shoulders. (From Griboyedov's comedy "Woe from Wit".)
9. Look at the root! (Aphorism of Kozma Prutkov.)
10. There is a Russian spirit, there smells of Russia. (A.S. Pushkin. "Ruslan and Lyudmila".)
Questions and questions:
1. Which of the Russian poets was hanged by order of the tsar? (K. Ryleev.)
2. Name 11 operas and ballets based on the plots of A.S. Pushkin. ("Eugene Onegin", " Queen of Spades”,“ Aleko ”,“ Mazepa ”,
"Ruslan and Lyudmila", "Dubrovsky", "Mozart and Salieri", "Boris Godunov", "The Fountain of Bakhchisaray", "The Golden Cockerel", "The Bronze Horseman".)
3. The name of which work of a famous Russian writer is an adverb? (“On the Eve” by I.S. Turgenev.)
4. What novel by a famous Russian writer begins with words in French? (“War and Peace” by L.N. Tolstoy.)
5. What sailor, who never sailed, is mentioned in one of the novels by I.S. Turgenev? ("Cat Sailor" in "The Nest of Nobles".)
6. What is the name of Timur from A. Gaidar's story "Timur and his team." (Garaev.)
7. Which of the Russian writers owned eight foreign languages? (Griboyedov. He was a diplomat - Latin, English, French, Arabic, Italian, Persian, Greek, German.)
8. Which of the writers wrote epigraphs for which works: “Take care of honor from a young age”, “There is nothing to blame on the mirror if the face is crooked”?
(A. S. Pushkin to the story " Captain's daughter". Gogol epigraph to the comedy "The Government Inspector".)
9. Which of the Russian writers skated at the age of 70, was fond of cycling at the age of 75, traveled fast at the age of 82
astride a horse? (L.N. Tolstoy.)
10. What is the name of the work on which M.Yu. Lermontov worked for 12 years? ("Demon", in 1829-1841)
11. Which of the Russian writers took part in the defense of Sevastopol, and what work was written by him under the impression of this
events? (L.N. Tolstoy. "Sevastopol stories".)
12. Which Russian artist bought the great Ukrainian poet? (K. Bryullov bought out T. Shevchenko.)
13. What literary works formed the basis of the paintings:
a) "Mermaid" by Kramskoy ("May Night". N.V. Gogol);
b) "The Cossacks" by Repin ("Taras Bulba" by N.V. Gogol);
c) “Barge Haulers on the Volga” by Repin (“On the Volga” by N. Nekrasov);
d) “Rest after the battle” by Neprintsev (“Vasily Terkin” by A. Tvardovsky)
14. What work did A.S. Pushkin after studying greatest work ancient Russian literature"The Tale of Igor's Campaign"? ("Ruslan and Ludmila".)
15. Whose words are these: "There is still gunpowder in the flasks." (Taras Bulba from N.V. Gogol's story "Taras Bulba".)
Questions from the field of history:
1. Explain the meaning of the words:
- veche (people's assembly);
- polyudye (collection of tribute by the prince from the territories subject to him);
- magi (priests);
- wrote (stick with a sharp end for writing on birch bark).
2. What temple was the prototype of St. Sophia of Kyiv? ( Saint Sophia Cathedral in Constantinople.)
3. Name at least 3 tribes Eastern Slavs. (For example: kivichi, vyatichi, radimichi, glade.)
4. About whom the Russian chronicler wrote: “Easily and inaudibly he walked on campaigns, like a leopard. He did not carry a tent with him, but slept with his saddle under his head. In battle, he was open and bold”? (Prince Svyatoslav.)
5. What does Monomakh's hat have to do with Vladimir Monomakh? (According to the legend Byzantine emperor Konstantin Monomakh presented it to his grandson Vladimir. From the point of view of historians: the hat has nothing to do with Vladimir, because it appeared in Rus' much later under the Mongols-Tatars.)
6. Explain the meaning of what is happening on figure. (By order of Vladimir, on the day of the baptism of the people of Kiev, all pagan idols were thrown into the Dnieper River, this caused horror and fear among the population, a desire to save their gods and the old faith.)
7. A.S. Pushkin has these words:
How the prophetic Oleg is now going
Take revenge on the unreasonable Khazars...
What does history say about this? Did Oleg take revenge on the Khazars, or did another prince do it? (Prince Svyatoslav defeated the Khazars.)
8. Is it true that the poem "The Tale of Igor's Campaign" is dedicated to Igor, the son of Rurik? (No. It was written later, in the 12th century, Igor here is a brother
Vsevolod the Big Nest.)
9. Chronicles conveyed to us the image of Prince Andrei Bogolyubsky as a proud and arrogant man. Explain if only character traits
prince forced him to look down on everyone? (As the doctors established from the remains of Andrei Bogolyubsky, 3 cervical vertebrae had grown together, which made it impossible to tilt his head down, the prince's head was always held high.)
10. X-XII century. Confirm or refute the idea that the Russian people who lived at that time were dark and illiterate. (No. Already under Yaroslav the Wise, schools for boys were opened, and under Vl. Monomakh for girls; numerous birch bark letters from Novgorod, etc.)
Questions from the field of geography:
1. Who did the first trip around the world? (Fernand Magellan.)
2. This point of the Earth is interesting because it geographical coordinates are equal to zero. Where is this point? Find it on the geographic
map. (Atlantic Ocean. Gulf of Guinea.)
3. This city was born from a Roman military settlement, then a mighty fortress with its bloody military history. Around it, block after block, new areas piled up - chaotically and unplanned. The city was not built for fun, luxury or entertainment - it was needed here, at the mouth of the river, for trade, for raids on foreign lands. It was the abode of merchants and warriors. Now this is one of largest cities and ports of the world, in which approximately 14% of the total population of the country is concentrated. Until 1953, in the suburbs of the city, there was an observatory known to the whole world, through which the zero meridian of the Earth passes. Name the city and the famous meridian that passes through it. At the mouth of which river is this city located? (London, Greenwich, Thames.)
4. What is the length of the equator in degrees, kilometers? (360, 4000 km.)
5. Can it be geographical latitude equal to 95 degrees? (No.)
6. What is the length of the arc of the equator in length? (40,075.696 km.)
7. Write down the numerical scale and build a linear one, if named at 1 cm - 5 km (1:500000); in 1 cm - 3500 km (1:350000000), in 1 cm - 100m (1:10000).
8. How can you use contour lines to determine which slope is steeper? (Where are the horizontal closer friend to a friend, the slope is steeper there.)
9. How does relative altitude differ from absolute altitude? (Relative altitude is the height of one point relative to another, absolute altitude is relative to sea level.)
10. What does the term "geography" mean? (Earth description.)
Questions from the field of computer science:
1. What was the original meaning of the word:
- computer? (The person doing the calculations.)
- calculator? (Stone (pebble) for counting.)
2. What information processes do you know? (Storage, transmission and processing of information.)
3. Name the first programmer. (Lady Ada Augusta Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron.)
4. What name did Blaise Pascal give his adding machine? ("Pascalina", 1642)
5. What does jacquard fabric have to do with computer science? (IN looms Jacquard pattern was set using punched cards.
Charles Babage used this idea to process information using a computer.)
6. What is a chip? (Integrated circuit on a silicon chip.)
7. What diameter can a flexible disk have. (8"" (first floppy disk 1971); 5.25"" (1976); 2"" (1985); 3"" (1982); 3.5" (1987) inches.)
8. How old are the accounts? (2000-5000 years China, Egypt, Greece.)
9. What is a block diagram? (Diagram showing the sequence of the main steps of the program.)
10. What is the difference between a logical error and a syntax error? (Syntax error - typo detected by computer, logical
the error is not noticed by the computer, but leads to incorrect results.)
Questions from the field of physics:
1. There is a book on the table in a moving carriage of a passenger train. The book is at rest or in motion relative to:
a) a table
b) rails,
c) the floor of the wagon,
d) telephone poles.
Answer: At rest.
2. What kind of movement is called uniform?
Answer: Uniform motion is a movement when a body travels the same distances in equal intervals of time.
3. Why is it easier to jump over a moat with a running start?
Answer: When taking off, a person acquires speed and, after taking off from the ground, continues to move by inertia.
4. Why is it dangerous to cross the road in front of nearby traffic?
Answer: The car cannot stop immediately when the brakes are applied, it still moves forward for some time (moves by inertia).
5. Are the molecules different cold water from hot water molecules?
Answer: Molecules do not differ, only the speed of their movement differs.
6. Explain why gases can be compressed more than liquids?
Answer: The distances between gas molecules are much greater than the distances between liquid molecules.
7. Why is the fragrance of flowers felt at a distance?
Answer: Due to the phenomenon of diffusion.
8. Why do odors of odorous substances spread quickly in calm air, and a dye (for example, blue) spreads slowly in calm water?
Answer: The diffusion rate in a gas is greater than the diffusion rate in water, because molecules move more freely in gases and the distances between them are greater than in liquids.
9. Molecules of a solid body are in constant motion. Why solid bodies do not break up into individual molecules?
Answer: There are forces of attraction between molecules.
10. Molecules of a substance are attracted to each other. Why are there gaps between them?
Answer: Between molecules at close distances (smaller than the diameter of the molecules), repulsive forces arise.
11. What is the reason for the destruction of buildings during an earthquake?
Answer: The phenomenon of inertia, since the soil, together with the foundation of buildings, begins to move, and the building itself remains at rest.
Questions from the field of art and music.
1. Name the names of famous Russian landscape painters. (Shishkin, Levitan, Kuindzhi, Polenov, Aivazovsky.)
2. In which picture of Russian artists is the sea depicted by one painter, and the man by another? (“Pushkin by the Sea” by Aivazovsky and Repin.)
3. What are the most famous Wanderers artists you know? (Kramskoy, Perov, Savrasov, Ge, Shishkin, Makovsky, Repin, Surikov,
Vasnetsov, Levitan).
4. What paintings by Russian artists were once removed from the exhibition by the tsar? (“Refusal of Confession” by Repin and “Rural Procession for Easter” by Perov.)
5. Which of the great artists was an anatomist, biologist, astronomer, musician, writer, architect? (Italian Leonardo da Vinci, 16th century.)
6. The whole world knows the cartoons, under which is the signature "Kukryniksy". But it's a pseudonym. Who are the authors of these works? ( Soviet artists: Kupriyanov, Krylov, Sokolov.)
7. What a Russian artist, all his creative life devoted to the creation of one picture? (Ivanov Alexander Andreevich "The Appearance of Christ to the People")
8. What great composer started his concert activity at the age of six? (Mozart.)
9. Which famous Russian composer was a chemist by profession, an academician of the Medical and Surgical Academy? (A.P. Borodin.)
10. What famous Russian composer was a general of the Russian army, a scientist in the field of military engineering, a professor of engineering
academy? (Kui Caesar Antonovich.)
11. The great Russian composer Borodin died before he could finish his opera Prince Igor. Who finished it? (Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov.)
12. Which famous Russian composer was a participant Patriotic War 1812, and then on a false denunciation he was arrested and exiled to Siberia? (Alyabiev Alexander Alexandrovich.)
13. What musical works dedicated to the legendary battleship Potemkin.? (Opera "Battleship Potemkin", composer
N. Rechmensky.)
14. Based on the excerpt from the song, what is the name of the song (and who are the authors of the lyrics and music)?
What are you, my dear, look askance.
Tilt your head low.
Difficult to say and not to say
Everything that is in my heart.
(“Moscow Evenings”, lyrics by M. Matusovsky. music by V. Solovyov-Sedogo.)
- From these questions, you can make a quiz game for participants of any age from 5th to 9th grade.
"What where When?"
Target: creation of a unified intellectual space which allows to popularize the forms of youth intellectual leisure, to identify intellectual leaders.
Tasks:
To form and develop the intellectual movement of students
Reveal the strongest youth teams
Develop the competitive qualities of schoolchildren
Game conditions:
Teams of 5-11 grades of the school (5-6, 7-8, 9-11) take part in the game.
The composition of the team is 6 people.
Teams are encouraged to have a name, a single uniform and the presence of paraphernalia.
Ways: questions
Decor: multimedia equipment for showing presentations (slides).
Game progress:
Good afternoon We are glad to welcome you to the game "What? Where? When? ”Today you all will act as experts. Remember the famous TV game? We will simplify the conditions for its implementation a little. Today we have qualifying rounds for all parallels. We choose the most intelligent teams in 3 age categories: 5-6 grades, 7-8 grades, 9-11 grades.
Let me remind you the rules of the Championship game: I read out the question, you are given one minute to discuss. After a minute, you give the answer. The first team to raise the flag is the first to answer. If the answer is not correct, the right to answer is transferred to the next team. Then I say the correct answer, and the results of the first question are entered into the table. If the team answered the question correctly, they get one point. In total, we have 12 questions in the game.
Remember the rules. Well, now let's say hello to the teams ....
Welcome to the jury...
Minute readiness
Break a leg.
Questions for teams of 5-6 classes:
One day, journalist Yaroslav Golovanov suggested that the Children's Literature publishing house establish a prize that would be awarded to a family in which the father's name is Mikhail Ivanovich, the mother's name is Nastasya Petrovna, and their son is Mikhail Mikhailovich. According to Golovanov, this prize should have a name that you know well.
Attention to the question: Which one?
Time!
Answer: Three Bears.
According to one of the African legends, the first man descended to earth from the sky.
Attention to the question: And what animal (according to the ideas, of course, Africans) helped him in this?
Time!
Answer: giraffe
You have heard in Russian the words "kolovorot", "outskirts", "nonsense".
Attention to the question: What does this mean? common root among the Slavs - "kolo"?
Time!
Answer: circle
You all know the mighty hero Ilya Muromets. How many years did Ilya lie on the stove?
Time!
Answer: 33 years old
Cow and armchair, chicken and compasses, tripod and piano. What do each couple have in common?
Time!
Answer: number of legs.
It is cold in winter, so we dress warmly - felt boots, fur coats, hats. Does a fur coat keep you warm in winter?
Time!
Answer: No, it only keeps warm.
The black box contains what the next riddle is about. It describes a certain technology by which it turns out what is in the black box
Attention question: I'll take it dusty, make it liquid, throw it into the flame, there will be a stone.
Time!
Answer: bread.
What plants do not have roots, stems, leaves, flowers?
Time!
Answer: algae.
What sport does the term "double toe loop" refer to?
Time!
Answer: figure skating.
It is said that before a long journey with a certain company, Aesop took on the largest basket. And I didn't guess.
Attention to the question: What was in it?
Time!
Answer: food for the road.
Bulgarians ask THEM for rain during a drought. And in Poland, parents teach their children: "Don't kill HER - maybe it's your late GRANDMA".
Attention to the question: Who are we talking about?
Time!
Answer: About a butterfly.
We look at the number 2, but say 10?
Attention to the question: When does this happen?
Time!
Answer: when we look at the clock.
Questions for grades 7-8:
One of the famous feats of Hercules was the cleaning of the Augean stables.
Attention question: Can you name how many horses they had?
Time!
Answer: Not a single one (there were only bulls in the barnyard of King Avgiy).
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.
Attention to the question: Why?
Time!
Answer. This is how raisins are made.
Once upon a time 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.
Attention to the question: Who was it really?
Answer. Hummingbird.
What material are ceramic dishes made from?
Time!
Answer: clay
The first ones, which appeared in Russia about three hundred years ago, were a body with holes in the lower part, into which coals were laid.
Attention question: What do we call them now?
Answer: iron
The famous Russian pianist Nikolai Petrov said in one interview: "I have never been an oligarch, I have neither companies nor mines. There are only my ten ...". Finish his thought with one word.
Answer: fingers
What “balls from the Ocean” sparkle and shimmer and attract people so much that they gain power over them?
Time!
Answer: pearls
Inhabitants of hot deserts and semi-deserts - fennec fox, caracal, gerbil, eared hedgehog and others are owners of rather large ears.
Attention question: Perfect hearing it has nothing to do with it, but what role do their ears play?
Time!
Answer: cooling
Remember, in which A. S. Pushkin's fairy tale a fundamentally new system of remuneration was introduced.
Attention question: name it
Time!
Answer: 3 clicks
The black box contains the cell that makes up any living being. This cell is in a large supply of nutrients.
Q: What is in the black box?
Answer: egg
Here this man sits and sentences, and sentences, and sentences ...
Attention question: What is the profession of this person!
Time!
Answer: judge
Questions for grades 9-11:
In the US, Reebok sneakers are sold in the original assembly: the right shoe is made in Taiwan, and the left shoe is made in Thailand. Thus, the company significantly reduced its losses.
Attention to the question: Why did the company suffer losses?
Answer: because of the theft of shoes from finished product factories.
IN Lately in the West on some tourist maps, for the convenience of walking, isolines of walking equidistance from the hotel and distances are marked not in meters or km., but in what?
Answer: an hour's walk
The economical Japanese government called on all employees to go to work in the summer without ties and jackets.
Attention to the question: What is the government going to save on?
Answer: electricity used for air conditioning
In the black box is what is called the "green camel"
Answer: cactus
Three great poets of Russia at once dedicated their poems to this two-headed mountain: Zhukovsky, Pushkin, Lermontov.
Answer: Elbrus
The Hebrew textbook opens with the words: “You are about to study the language you speak…” Who?
Answer. God.
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.
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.
Attention! Black box.
IN Ancient China soaked mulberry bark was split into thin strips and boiled in a lime solution for two hours. Then the resulting mass was smashed with hammers, glue was added to it, poured with water, and all this was sifted through a fine sieve. The mass that settled in the sieve was tipped onto a board and pressed. The resulting product was dried and used.
Attention to the question: What was it used for?
Answer: The resulting paper was naturally used for writing.
In geography she is kind, in football she is the last one, in song she helps to navigate life, for historians she is the sailing ship of the first Russian round-the-world expedition.
Attention question: What is it?
Answer: hope
The well-known basketball commentator Vladimir Gomelsky once complained: “It’s difficult with women’s sports, you just get used to how you have to retrain.”
Attention to the question: What exactly to retrain?
Answer: surname
In 1926 and 1948, Germany was punished for starting wars in the same way that Sparta had once been punished.
Attention to the question: What is this punishment?
Answer: German athletes were forbidden to participate in Olympic Games
Summing up and awarding the winners and participants.
