The most interesting questions of the game are what, where, when. Questions from the program “What? Where? When?” The absurd disappearance of a painting

On September 4, 1975, the legendary TV game “What? Where? When?". Over the years of its existence, the rules, names of sectors, and the teams themselves have changed. But invariably every year, fans of this program send tricky questions to compete with experts. Today we present to you the five most interesting questions from the program “What? Where? When?".

The absurd disappearance of a painting

One day, Edvard Munch's painting "The Scream" was stolen from the Oslo National Gallery. The criminals climbed through the window, removed the picture and, despite the alarm going off, were able to escape unhindered. In the explanation of the reasons for this incident, another city is mentioned. Which?

Answer: Lillehammer.

Explanation: The security was so captivated by the television broadcast of the opening of the winter Olympic Games from the Norwegian town of Lillehammer, who simply ignored the alarm.

Siberian conversation

The great Russian traveler Nikolai Mikhailovich Przhevalsky said that Siberians like long hair winter evenings gather around the table and conduct, as they say, a “Siberian conversation.” The black box contains an indispensable attribute of the “Siberian conversation”. Attention, question: What's in the black box?

Answer: An indispensable attribute of the “Siberian conversation” were pine nuts. The Siberians were sitting at the table, gnawing nuts and for the most part were silent.

Discoveries

What unites the great discoveries of Mendel and Mendeleev?

Answer: The doctrine of Mendel's heredity and Mendeleev's periodic law of chemical elements are united by the fact that both of these discoveries were made in a dream.

Privileges of old age

An ancient Chinese book says: “A 50-year-old person can only walk with a stick in his own home. A 60-year-old is only in his own city. The 70-year-old is wherever he wants. An 80-year-old can even come to the emperor’s palace with a wand.” What does the ancient Chinese book say about a 90-year-old man?

Answer: The emperor himself must come to the 90-year-old man.

Question 1: We hope you enjoy this question. A typically English joke. An elderly gentleman, taking the elevator to the top floor, starts a conversation with the elevator operator:
- Tell me, my dear, what is the most difficult thing in your work? Probably climbs?
- No, sir.
- Then, probably, descents?
- No, sir.
- But what, in that case?
Restore the elevator operator's answer.

Answer: “Questions, sir.”

Answer: Everything after three counts.

Answer: deadline.

Test: by 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 fairly short time. Name HER in two or three words.

Answer: light bulb in the refrigerator

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

Answer: Marshak and Scattered from Basseynaya Street.

Question 6: In one of the Harry Potter books, the bookseller tests serious problems because of the pugnacity of monster books. He recalls another unpleasant situation when the store purchased books on the ability to DO IT. Name the person who managed to DO THIS scientifically.

Answer: main character books The Invisible Man - Griffin, Books about Invisibility.

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

Comment: The balls indicated those that were pocketed in football match goals.

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

Answer: among those who met him.

Question 9: Once on the Segodnyachko program it was reported that a dog bit 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: [To the presenter: read Stalin’s phrase with a Georgian accent; Emphasize the word “soften” a little in your voice.]
“This thing is stronger than Goethe’s Faust. Here love conquers death.” They say that when the decision was made to put Maxim Gorky’s book with this inscription by Stalin on public display, the archive workers froze in anticipation of a scandal. One ordinary employee was not at a loss, who, in order to soften the impression of this exhibit on visitors, armed herself with a pen and added... What?

Answer: Soft sign.

Test: Soft signs.

Comment: Stalin wrote this inscription while he was very drunk, so he wrote “love.”

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

Answer: “Making copies.”

Question 12: At the Statler Hotel in Chicago, the management sometimes places a mannequin, which they jokingly call Louis XIV, among those gathered for a dinner party, and serves him along with the other guests. In what cases do they do this?

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

Comment: Superstitions are still strong today...

Question 13: About whom did Mark Twain say: “He was happy man. When something funny came to his mind, he could be firmly sure that he was not repeating other people’s witticisms”?

Answer: Adam.

Question 14: In the “Book of Useless Facts” the following useless fact can be found: “If THIS were recognized as a religion, then THIS would be the tenth largest religious movement" Let us add that in some countries, such as the DPRK, PRC, former USSR and, according to some sociological surveys, in Israel THIS would become the most numerous religion, but in Poland it would not. What is this?

Answer: Atheism.

Question 15:

Having guessed how LiveJournal user crimenelf signed these two pictures, write what word he signed with the third photograph we removed.

Question 16: In the TV series “House,” a doctor makes diagnoses for very complex cases of illness. His colleague Wilson is sometimes involved in determining the diagnosis. According to Wikipedia, Dr. House was based on another fictional person. Give this person's last name.

Answer: Holmes.

Commentary: Dr. House even lives in house number 221B, just like his supposed prototype Sherlock Holmes. House and Wilson have surnames that start with the same letters as Holmes and Watson.

Question 17: The German naturalist Johann Blumenbach called this animal “primary he”. We do not ask what and how we changed in this matter. Name this animal.
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Answer: Mammoth.

Comment: In fact, Blumenbach called the mammoth “primary 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 pair of ancestors, the first humans. Name this work.
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Answer: “Chicken Ryaba.”

Question 19:

In one of the episodes of the animated series “The Simpsons,” Lisa starts smoking, 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 changed last word. 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 down the forest - the chips fly.” In one of the words in this post we replaced one letter. Reproduce the word the blogger used.

Answer: Caps are flying.

Question 21:

According to stable expression, this piece of clothing takes a very hard beating all day long. Name this item of clothing.

Answer: Socks. On your feet all day.

Question 22: Roma Voronezhsky depicted 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.

This phrase “What? Where? When?" For more than 40 years now it has been associated with us in a TV game show in which the intellectual elite Club of “experts” participates. Questions sent by viewers are always very unusual, interesting and tricky.

I.I. Rusanova compiled from them most interesting book, which can become a guide for novice experts. True, the author, as expected, first gives the questions, and at the end of the chapter - the answers, but in order to save you time on searching, we will give them right away. So…

1. Why does a heron not move from its spot when it pecks at a fish?

Because at this time a kind of “dandruff” falls off it, on which fish and frogs “peck”.

2. Why did the duelists hold left hand raised 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 contributed to increasing the combat effectiveness of the troops.

4. Why were typhoons used to be given female names?

Typhoon (Chinese tai feng - big wind) - that's what they called Far East tropical cyclones of storm and hurricane force. The name of the first schooner damaged by the typhoon was "Maria", and since then typhoons have been given predominantly female names.

5. Why do cows like to graze on the railroad embankment?

Typically, railway sleepers are impregnated with tar, which consists of petroleum resins. The smell of tar drives away 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 Shahrazad (or, as we are more familiar, Scheherazade). Her husband, King Shahriyar, after the betrayal of his former wife, took up arms 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 most interesting point. This went on for 1001 nights. During this time, Shahriyar fell in love with the wise queen, and she became his faithful companion.

7. On which foot did Cinderella lose her shoe - on the right or on the left?

In the 17th century, when Charles Perrault, the author of this tale, lived, shoes for both feet were the same, without distinction between right and left. Division was only introduced in the 19th century. By the way, her slipper was not crystal at all, it’s just that in some French publications, instead of the word vair - “fur for edging”, verre - “glass” was mistakenly printed, and therefore in translations of this tale into other languages, including Russian, it appeared "glass slipper".

8. Where did the ancient Romans look before paying off their debts?

IN Ancient Rome The date for payment of debts was Kalends - the first day of the month. The word “calendar” (from the Latin calendarium) literally means “debt book”.

9. What was the name of the stick of the ancient mule drivers?

In Ancient Rome, a pointed stick used to drive animals was called a stimulus (from the Latin stimulus). The word "stimulus" has acquired figurative meaning- now we call this the motivating reason (incentive to work, incentive to win).

10. Name 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”; he 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 do Arabs usually 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, going down into the mine, took cages with canaries with them. Why was this done?

Canaries played the role of a kind of “sensor” of harmful gases. When their level increased, the canaries died, and the miners rose to the surface because there was a danger of explosion.

13. Why are there such short acts in Moliere’s comedies—lasting no more than half an hour each?

In Molière's time, the stage was lit with candles, and the candle burns out in about half an hour.

14. When one person speaks, it is a monologue, and when two people speak, it is a dialogue. What do you call a conversation between six people?

In Greek, dialogue means “conversation, conversation,” so six people will also have a dialogue.

15. What will happen to the matador if instead of an angry bull he is attacked by an angry cow. Justify your answer!

When a bull is enraged, his eyes become bloodshot, he sees almost nothing and simply closes his eyes when attacking. This does not happen to a cow, so it perfectly sees the object of attack.

16. One day Pythagoras asked his students a question: what needs to be done in order for a valuable thought to come to mind.

The correct answer, which the teacher himself gave, 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 rest.

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. They also began to call musical composition consisting of various melodies famous operas, operettas and songs.

18. What is in the black box is a fake, a fake and a deception.

It is made by men, but is used by women. This deception is over 200 years old, but we still continue to pay money for it. What's in the box?

This is costume jewelry - jewelry made from base stones and metals. Its heyday came in the 18th century, when there was a great need for imitation precious jewelry. Subsequently, a wide variety of materials began to be used to make jewelry: glass, wood, leather, plastic, etc. Costume jewelry with Swarovski crystals, which, thanks to a special processing technology, are difficult to distinguish from real diamonds, is especially valued.

19. Far from the city of Snezhnogorsk, in a deep forest, there is a hut for hunters and fishermen, which is called a “winter hut”.

Usually, when leaving there after hunting or fishing, people leave a supply of food. How can you preserve fresh potatoes without them freezing?

Potatoes should be placed in a plastic bag, tied tightly and placed in water under ice. Since the water always has a positive temperature, potatoes can be perfectly stored for a long time.

20. The most popular type of public transport in London in the 19th century was cabs - hired carriages.

However, in the second half of the century, a certain invention appeared that caused violent protests among English cabmen. Which?

It was an umbrella that actually appeared in China back in the 11th century BC. and served as protection from the sun. English entrepreneur Jonas Hanway took it out into the rain for the first time, and mass production of this item, especially relevant for England, immediately began. And the cab drivers were simply afraid that they would have fewer clients.

21. Name and show that item of clothing that was not in the wardrobe of the Romans before their conquest northern peoples.

Pants, or, to put it differently, became such a novelty for the Romans. modern language, trousers. Their name among the northern peoples was similar: among the Celts - “brak”, among the Germans - “brokes”, among the Dutch - “brock”.

22. This technical innovation appeared in London in 1911, but 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 new product and continues to do so. What it is?

This is an escalator at a metro station, the safety of which was convincingly proven by a disabled person on a wooden crutch.

23. In Japan, where earthquakes are frequent, reinforced concrete buildings are destroyed during earthquakes, but pagodas remain standing. Why?

In each pagoda, the builders hung a special long wooden beam from top to bottom, equipped with a weight at the end, and the oscillation frequency of this kind of pendulum was selected in such a way that the beam would swing out of phase with the building itself during an earthquake. This made it possible to dampen vibrations caused by an earthquake. The same principle is used today in vibration dampers installed on tall factory chimneys and television towers.

24. The Japanese concern Toyota pays its staff remuneration for inventions and improvements. Which ones pay the smallest reward?

Remuneration, even the smallest one, is paid even for those inventions that have no practical application.

25. The object in the black box is a masterpiece that was invented back in Ancient Babylon and reached 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 made it possible and allows the construction of any buildings and structures from bricks.

26. The Swedish lake Holmsø was polluted by acid rain and industrial waste.

Ecologists have proposed restoring life in it using a large number of lime What ingenious way have local authorities found to solve this problem?

There is a confectionery factory on the shore of this lake. Her yard constantly accumulates a huge amount of eggshells - a wonderful limestone material. If these shells are thrown into the lake, then, according to scientists, it will gradually cleanse it of industrial pollution.

27. In 1769, residents of Boston, America discovered that mail from England to Boston was delivered two weeks later than from Boston to England. Who was the culprit of this violation?

The culprit was the current: ships sailed to England with the current, and from England - against the current. In 1769, the Boston City Council complained to King George III that mail from England was constantly being delayed. B. Franklin, an outstanding American politician and scientist, who was at that time the Under Secretary of Post for the Colonies, decided to find out the reasons for this and, after studying the logbooks and charts of whaling ships, compiled 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, but by 1500 the number of printed books was already more than 9 million.

This sharp 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 movable metal type, when lines in a typesetting frame were composed of pre-cast type and signs. What was the third invention?

It was the invention and spread 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, which could be used to improve vision.

29. “The doctor has three weapons”

“The doctor has three instruments,” wrote the great Arab scientist, 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 main one of the doctor!

This word. No wonder in Ancient Rus' people who knew how to talk mentally, persuade, persuade, and calm others were called doctors, from the word “to lie.” True, then it simply meant “to speak.”

30. We usually use table napkins, or wipers, as they were called in Rus'. How were such napkins used in Ancient Rome?

In Ancient Rome, each guest was served two napkins. He used the smaller one during meals. As you know, feasts in Ancient Rome were plentiful, with dozens of courses, and in the second napkin, bigger size, the guest could take the treat home.

This is the standard of one kilogram - a cylinder of platinum-iridium alloy, which is kept near Paris at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures, founded in 1875.

33. The famous Elsinore Castle, where the tragedy “Hamlet” takes place, stands on the shore of the strait.

In the 15th to 18th centuries, all ships passing through the strait had to pay a duty to the Danish kings based on the value of the goods. Moreover, each captain himself reported the cost of his cargo. What method did the royal treasury use to ensure that this was done absolutely honestly?

The Danish king reserved the right to purchase any cargo according to the cost that the captain named, and if it turned out to be suspiciously low, the king immediately laid out the named amount, and the captain could only sail with empty holds.

Game “What? Where? When?" for schoolchildren. Scenario

Intellectual Championship of the game “What? Where? When?" for schoolchildren.

Five-minute break, musical composition.
Questions from 13-24
13. This list was compiled in the first century BC and it has still remained unchanged although hundreds of attempts have been made to change this list.
Attention question: What are we talking about?
Time!
Clue: seven point list
Answer: Seven Wonders of the World
14.Continue the Japanese wisdom: they give birth to a body, but not... What?
Time!
Answer:... character.
15. Once at the front, in the women’s air unit, it was decided to organize an amateur concert. The program turned out to be so large and diverse that one of the girls wanted to be an IM, because, according to her, this category of people is also necessary.
Attention question: Name HIM.
Time!
Answer: viewer
16. Indonesia is located on the islands of the Indian Ocean and they say about it: “Here, if it rains, then it’s downpour, if a tree, it’s like a giant, if a butterfly, it’s like a bird, and if it’s a house, it’s like...”
Attention question: And on what?
Time!
Answer:...on stilts A comment: because when the time of the Great Rains comes, there is water everywhere, but the houses are dry, for the stilts lift them high above the ground.
17.What did the famous ancient Greek philosopher Socrates call the best seasoning for food?
Time!
Answer: hunger.
18. In the 15th century, it was not uncommon for court documents to contain absolutely no IM due to the desire to avoid false interpretations. Reproduce in your answer a textbook example where IT can be placed both here and there.
Time!
Answer: Execution cannot be pardoned (that's a comma).
19. One of the famous labors of Hercules was cleaning the Augean stables.
Attention question: Can you name, with at least an order of magnitude accuracy, how many horses were in them?
Time!
Answer: Not a single one (on barnyard King Augeas had only bulls).
20. During a drought, Bulgarians ask THEM for rain. And in Poland, parents teach their children: “Don’t kill HER - maybe it’s your dead GRANDMOTHER.”
Attention question: Who are the Poles talking about like that?
Time!
Answer: About the butterfly.
21. This was invented by men three thousand years ago in the sultry deserts of the East. IN medieval Europe, where the first Christian preachers brought it, women were also not allowed to do this. Many knights did this, and getting into the closed guild of professionals was possible only after six years of training and a strict exam. Times are changing: men have long forgotten about this and consider it entirely a female prerogative.
Attention question: What it is?
Time!
Answer: Knitting.
22. It’s no secret that submariners experience sensory hunger during long voyages. They say that after returning to shore, they are ordered to watch THIS in order to protect their money from being quickly wasted. And the newspaper “Friend for Drug” reports that the Kursk authorities recognized the elevator cabin as “an effective platform for THIS.”
Attention question: What is this?
Time!
Answer: Advertising. A comment: The sailors believe everything after the voyage - and the material consequences are catastrophic.
23.According to Pele, most football players’ nicknames were invented by people whose work he compared to a machine gun.
Attention question: Name the profession of the people mentioned.
Time!
Answer: TV commentators. Test.

On September 4, 1975, at exactly 12:00, the program “What? Where? When?” was broadcast for the first time. Today, even a child can tell the rules of this game, but few people remember that 38 years ago there were no experts, no spinning top, or the famous crystal owl. In the first games, two families competed against each other, 2 rounds were filmed in their house, and then the stories were edited using photographs from the participants’ family album. Later, students began to take part in the game and the program was called a “youth television club”, and in 1991 it turned into an “intellectual casino”.

The first questions for experts were thought up by Vladimir Voroshilov himself and a team of editors, but a few years later, letters from viewers began to arrive at the program’s address with questions, the answers to which were sometimes the most unexpected.

"RG" selected several interesting questions that were voiced on the air of the game "What? Where? When?"

Question No. 1

In 1926 and 1948, Germany was punished for starting wars in the same way that Sparta was once punished. What kind of punishment is this?

Answer: German athletes were banned from participating in the Olympic Games

Question No. 2

The Weekly World News conducted a survey in five major cities America, finding out who would agree to go naked to work for $1 million. 84% of men agreed. Women, as it turned out, are somewhat more shy: only 20% would show off their charms. True, the explanation may be contained in the words of one of the survey participants, who would have exposed herself provided she had been warned several weeks in advance. Why does she need these few weeks?

Answer: To lose weight

Question No. 3

The Mexican resort of Acapulco is world famous. Its popularity is largely due to the local climate, which is perfectly suitable for recreation. Having guessed what the word “acapulco” means in translation from the Aztec language, name famous traveler, who visited, among others interesting places, and in a city with the same name.

Answer: Dunno

Question #4

This device was invented in the USA in the early 20s. It was first produced by a company that had previously been involved in the production of cocktail mixers, and quickly gained popularity among a significant part of the population. In the 30s and 40s, models with adjustable heat and speed appeared. Why did sales of these devices increase sharply in the 60s?

Answer: Because men began to wear long hair and they also needed hair dryers.

Question #5

The radical avant-garde association of artists of the early last century, which broke away from the “Jack of Diamonds”, was unusual name two words denoting an item that was once gifted to its rightful owner. What was the name of this association?

Answer: "Donkey's tail"

Question #6

English psychologist David Lewis claims that it is safe only for women, while for men it can become a source of dangerous diseases. Studies have shown that only a quarter of women experienced any minor abnormalities, such as palpitations. Men, on the contrary, reacted extremely negatively to this: their pulse increased, arrhythmia began to appear, and their blood pressure. Name it English word, which relatively recently penetrated into the Russian language.

Answer: Shopping

Question No. 7

Many do not believe in its existence. However, Kant believed that any human knowledge. And they also say that it only fails those who have it. Name it.

Answer: Intuition

Question #8

Oddly enough, these two have a lot in common. Both are of Italian descent. They would have the same middle names, if, of course, they had any. But their relations with Russia developed differently. For the former, his visit to Russia ultimately brought nothing but trouble, although at first everything went very well for him. The second one is not only known to everyone in Russia, young and old, in fact, he was born here. Name them both.

Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte and Pinocchio

Question No. 9

There is something inhuman, mechanical in each of them. At the same time, the first one is friendly towards others, although a certain woman suffered a lot from him. The second one, on the contrary, is very unfriendly, but a certain woman eventually managed to avoid the threat from him. Interestingly, both made the same promises. Who are they?

Answer: Carlson and the Terminator