15 questions from the program “What? Where? When? ", Which will make you feel like a connoisseur

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Prove that you can take a seat at the round table and claim the title of the best player!

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Name the name of the critic who treated the work of A. P. Chekhov with stubborn hostility, called him a bad hack, his work "Ivanov" - a play for boobies, and other plays are nothing more than "junk", "chewed sponge" and "weighty rubbish ".

A picky critic who decisively rejected almost every creation of Chekhov was the writer himself.

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It's impossible without a fire in the tundra: it's very cold. When there is a blizzard in Chukotka in winter, all the shrubs suitable for making a fire are covered with snow. How to get it out of there? The working method is known by the indigenous people. They take with them on the road a certain food product and with its help they get the bushes from under the snow. What is this product?

Residents of Chukotka take salt with them to sprinkle it on the place where the supposed shrubs are located. The deer begin to lick the scattered delicacy, the salt gradually falls into the snow, the animals rake it with their hooves and expose the bush.

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In the novel by the English writer Rosamund Pilcher, there are the following lines: "This invention led to a sharp decrease in congenital genetic diseases in infants born in the late 19th century in rural England." What invention are we talking about?

About the bike. According to the writer, this vehicle gave the villagers freedom of movement. This means that young men were able to find brides in distant villages, which reduced the number of marriages between relatives.

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Such perforated stone discs can be seen at the entrance to the Yap Islanders' huts. The size of the discs ranges from 5 centimeters to 3.5 meters in diameter. What are they needed for?

These discs are called Rai stones. The locals used them as money. Each stone had a history of origin, and the more interesting it was, the more valuable it became.

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Farmer Joseph Glidden was proud of his invention all his life, thanks to which pastoralism developed with renewed vigor in the vast American West. However, before his death, Joseph learned how they began to use his brainchild, and was horrified. What did he invent?

A farmer invented barbed wire to contain cattle and protect farmland. And Joseph was horrified that the invention was used against people.

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When the Indian sage Bodhidharma decided to choose a successor among his disciples, he asked them the question: "What is the essence of wisdom?" How did the disciple who became this successor as a result answer this question?

Bodhidharma's successor was the disciple who replied, "I don't know."

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“He was embarrassed and sat down: this happened to him for the first time. Turning to the window, behind which nothing was visible, except the darkness of the night, he suddenly felt the whole burden of his years. This is an excerpt from the work of the writer Tonino Guerra. What event happened in the hero's life?

For the first time in his life, the hero was given a place in public transport, considering him an elderly man.

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Scientists at the University of London have conducted a unique experiment. They exhibited various paintings indoors and selected the winners by voting. They were "Vase of Flowers" by Paul Gauguin and "Sunflowers" by Vincent Van Gogh. Who was attracted by these two canvases?

These canvases attracted bees. Experimental insects sat on paintings with flowers that they would like to pollinate. They especially liked Van Gogh's Sunflowers.

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One American was annoyed every day by boys who frolicked on his lawn. Then he came up with a subtle psychological move, which, however, required initial costs. What did the resourceful man do to get rid of the boys?

The American told the boys that he would pay 25 cents to run and play on his lawn. And after a while he said that he would not give more money. Then the guys said that they were not going to play for free on his lawn, and this was what the man needed.

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Once the owner of an Italian company, Fred Magido, gave a slingshot to all the boys living in the neighboring neighborhoods for the twentieth anniversary of his company. What did Fred's firm do?

The company was engaged in glazing windows.

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In the old days, it was believed that if the apple tree ceases to bear fruit, then you need to approach it, express the words of threat and bury this object under it. Which?

Yablone was threatened that they would cut her down. To prove the seriousness of their intentions, an ax was buried in the ground.

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This monument was erected in honor of an invention made by Jacob Christoph Rad in 1843. And he did it largely because his wife was injured. What kind of injury was it and under what circumstances was it received?

This is a monument to refined sugar. The wife of the inventor was injured when she tried to chop off smaller particles from a large lump of sugar. So that she would no longer be crippled, Jacob invented sugar in small pieces.

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In psychiatry, a syndrome is known for which derealization is characteristic - a feeling of unreality of the surrounding world, and depersonalization - a feeling of a change in oneself, a violation of the perception of one's body. The name of this syndrome was introduced into medical practice by the English scientist John Todd. He gave him a name consonant with the title of the work of one famous writer. What is the name of the syndrome?

Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. People who have it have a distorted perception of the proportions of their bodies. They seem to them substantially larger or smaller than they really are.

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The Volusi County Sheriff, Florida, invented an ingenious way of dealing with drug traffickers. He installed video surveillance on various sections of highways and placed roadside billboards there. The inscription on the billboards made some drug couriers unwittingly give themselves away. What were the words on it?

The sheriff set up billboards that read: Drug Inspection Ahead. Some dealers, frightened, turned their cars around, not suspecting that they were being monitored by video, which gave themselves away.

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In the story of the writer Milorad Pavich "Russian Greyhound" there is an episode in which the main character takes an object, wraps it in a warm shirt and puts a newborn puppy on top of it all. This design, according to the protagonist, was supposed to replace the puppy's mother, from whom he was torn away. What was the item wrapped in the shirt?

Watch. They were supposed to imitate the beating of a mother's heart.

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The puzzles for this collection are taken from the archive.