Question 1: We hope you enjoy this question. A typical 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, a bookseller gets into serious trouble because of the pugnacity of the 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?
…
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, to those gathered for dinner party the administration sometimes plants a dummy, which they jokingly call Louis XIV, and serves him equally with 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: The following useless fact can be found in the Book of Useless Facts: “If THIS were recognized as a religion, IT 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 diseases. 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 “The forest is being cut down - the chips are flying.” In one of the words in this post we replaced one letter. Reproduce the word the blogger used.
Answer: Caps are flying.
Question 21:
As the saying goes, this piece of clothing goes through a lot of hard work 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.
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GAME “WHAT? WHERE? WHEN?"
(grades 7-9)
Rules of the game
Questions for the game
“Assorted” questions.
Questions and queries:
Questions from the field of history:
1. Explain the meaning of the words:
- veche (national assembly);
- Magi (priests);
drawing
How the prophetic Oleg is getting ready now
Vsevolod the Big Nest.)
GAME “WHAT? WHERE? WHEN?"
(grades 7-9)
Several teams of 6 people can take part.
Teams choose a captain and come up with a name. The game is played in large room, on the walls of which they hang
posters with the name of the game, colorfully designed images of question marks, drawings of an owl, etc.There is a table for the presenter on the stage. Behind the presenter's place there is a scoreboard to display the game score. During the game all teams
sitting in the hall. Each team is at a separate table. Teams must familiarize themselves with the rules of the game, and the host reminds them.
Rules of the game
The facilitator reads out the question and gives all teams one minute to discuss. After a minute has elapsed, a sound signal sounds, after which the teams must submit their answers in writing to the presenter within 20 seconds. After 20 seconds, a second beep sounds, after which no more command responses will be accepted. The presenter quickly looks through the sheets with the teams’ answers 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.
The rating of the question is written in brackets - the number of teams that did not answer the question. The game continues and the next question is asked.
After completing half of the game, a musical break is organized to relax and relieve tension. This could be some number performed by the guys. After a musical break, the game resumes. The team that wins the game (scoring the most points) is awarded with commemorative medals for the winners, personalized diplomas of the champions of the game “What? Where? When?”, as well as prizes.
If two teams score the same number of points, the total rating of all questions is taken into account to determine the winner.
Whichever team has more of it 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 of our planet. (Qomolungma or Everest, 8848 m.)
5. Name the most important book of Muslims. (Koran.)
6. Name the smallest bird. (Hummingbird, less than 2 grams.)
7. Name the most common tree in Russia. (Larch. It makes up 45% of forest areas.)
8. Name the largest berry. (Watermelon.)
9. Name the most common name on the pages of Kir Bulychev’s works. (Alice.)
10. Name the smallest monetary unit in the United States. (Cent.)
11. What is the name of the highest ocean wave? (Tsunami.)
12. Name the most popular vehicle in 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. (Lapti.)
17. Name 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. “Poet and Citizen.”)
3. Those born to crawl cannot fly. (M. Gorky. “Song about the Falcon.”)
4. Man - it sounds proud! (M. Gorky. “At the Bottom.”)
5. I want the feather to be equal to the bayonet. (V.V. Mayakovsky. “Home.”)
6. No one will embrace the immensity. (Aphorism from “Fruits of Thoughts” by Kozma Prutkov.)
7. You are heavy, Monomakh’s hat. (From A.S. Pushkin’s tragedy “Boris Godunov.”)
8. Signed, off your shoulders. (From Griboedov’s comedy “Woe from Wit.”)
9. Look to the root! (Aphorism by Kozma Prutkov.)
10. There is a Russian spirit there, it smells of Russia. (A.S. Pushkin. “Ruslan and Lyudmila.”)
Questions and queries:
1. Which Russian poet was hanged by order of the tsar? (K. Ryleev.)
2. Name 11 operas and ballet performances based on the plots of works by A.S. Pushkin. ("Eugene Onegin", " Queen of Spades", "Aleko", "Mazeppa",
“Ruslan and Lyudmila”, “Dubrovsky”, “Mozart and Salieri”, “Boris Godunov”, “Bakhchisarai Fountain”, “Golden Cockerel”, “Bronze Horseman”.)
3. The title of which work of a famous Russian writer is an adverb? (“On the Eve” by I.S. Turgenev.)
4. Which novel by a famous Russian writer begins with the words French? (“War and Peace” by L.N. Tolstoy.)
5. Which sailor, who has never sailed, is mentioned in one of the novels by I.S. Turgenev? (“Sailor the Cat” in “The Noble Nest.”)
6. Name Timur from A. Gaidar’s story “Timur and His Team.” (Garaev.)
7. Which Russian writer owned eight foreign languages? (Griboedov. Was a diplomat - Latin, English, French, Arabic, Italian, Persian, Greek, German.)
8. Which writer wrote epigraphs for which works: “Take care of your honor from a young age”, “There is no point in blaming the mirror if your face is crooked”?
(A.S. Pushkin to the story “ Captain's daughter" Gogol epigraph to the comedy “The Inspector General”.)
9. Which of the Russian writers skated at the age of 70, was into cycling at the age of 75, and rode 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 redeemed the great from captivity Ukrainian poet? (K. Bryullov bought out T. Shevchenko.)
13. What literary works formed the basis for the paintings:
a) “Mermaid” by Kramskoy (“May Night”. N.V. Gogol);
b) “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 was created by 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 (national assembly);
- polyudye (collection of tribute by the prince from the territories under his control);
- Magi (priests);
- wrote (a stick with a sharp end for writing on birch bark).
2. Which temple was the prototype of Sophia of Kyiv? (Sophia Cathedral in Constantinople.)
3. Name at least 3 tribes Eastern Slavs. (For example: Kivichi, Vyatichi, Radimichi, Polyane.)
4. About whom the Russian chronicler wrote: “He walked easily and silently on campaigns, like a leopard. He did not take a tent with him, but slept with the saddle under his head. Was he open and brave in battle? (Prince Svyatoslav.)
5. What does Monomakh’s hat have to do with Vladimir Monomakh? (According to legend, the Byzantine Emperor Constantine Monomakh gave it to his grandson Vladimir. From the point of view of historians: the hat has nothing to do with Vladimir, since it appeared in Rus' much later under the Mongols-Tatars.)
6. Explain the meaning of what is happening on drawing. (By order of Vladimir, on the day of the baptism of the Kievites, 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. U A.S. Pushkin has these words:
How the prophetic Oleg is getting ready now
Take revenge on the foolish 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 brother
Vsevolod the Big Nest.)
9. The chronicles brought to us the image of Prince Andrei Bogolyubsky as a proud and arrogant man. Explain whether only character traits
the prince was forced to look down on everyone? (As doctors established from the remains of Andrei Bogolyubsky, his 3 cervical vertebrae were fused, which made it impossible to tilt his head down; the prince’s head was always raised high.)
10. X-XII century. Confirm or refute the idea that the Russian people who lived at this time were dark and illiterate. (No. Already under Yaroslav the Wise, schools were opened for boys, and under Vladimir Monomakh for girls; numerous birch bark letters are known from Novgorod, etc.)
Questions from the field of geography:
1. Who did the first trip around the world? (Fernand Magellan.)
2. This point on the Earth is interesting because its geographic coordinates are zero. Where is this point? Find it on 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 were 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, which contains approximately 14% of the country's total population. Until 1953, in the suburbs of the city there was a world-famous observatory through which the Earth's prime meridian passes. Name the city and the famous meridian that runs 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 geographic latitude be equal to 95 degrees? (No.)
6. What is the length of the arc of the equator? (40,075.696 km.)
7. Write down the numerical scale and construct a linear one, if named 1 cm - 5 km (1: 500000); in 1 cm - 3500 km (1: 350000000), in 1 cm - 100 m (1: 10000).
8. How can you use contour lines to determine which slope is steeper? (Where the horizontal lines are closer to each other, the slope is steeper.)
9. How does relative height differ from absolute height? (Relative height is the height of one point relative to another, absolute height is relative to sea level.)
10. What does the term “geography” mean? (Ground 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 to his summing machine? ("Pascalina", 1642)
5. What does jacquard fabric have to do with computer science? (In Jacquard looms, the 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 flowchart? (Diagram showing the sequence of the main steps of the program.)
10. How does a logical error differ from a syntax error? (Syntax error - typo detected by computer, logical
The error is not noticed by the computer, but leads to incorrect results.)
Physics questions:
1. In a moving carriage of a passenger train, there is a book on the table. A book is at rest or in motion relative to:
a) table,
b) rails,
c) the floor of the carriage,
d) telegraph poles.
Answer: At rest.
2. What kind of motion is called uniform?
Answer: Uniform motion is motion when a body travels the same paths in equal intervals of time.
3. Why is it easier to jump over a ditch with a running start?
Answer: During a run, a person gains speed and, after leaving 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 turned on; it continues to move forward for some time (moves by inertia).
5. Are the molecules different? cold water from hot water molecules?
Answer: The molecules are not different, only the speed of their movement is different.
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 can the scent of flowers be felt from a distance?
Answer: Due to the phenomenon of diffusion.
8. Why do odors of odorous substances spread quickly in calm air, but a dye (for example, blue) spreads slowly in calm water?
Answer: Diffusion rate in gas more speed diffusion in water, because in gases molecules move more freely and the distances between them are greater than in liquids.
9. The molecules of a solid are in continuous motion. Why solids do not break down into individual molecules?
Answer: There are attractive forces between molecules.
10. Molecules of a substance are attracted to each other. Why are there gaps between them?
Answer: Repulsive forces arise between molecules at close distances (smaller than the diameter of the molecules).
11. What is the reason for the destruction of buildings during an earthquake?
Answer: The phenomenon of inertia, because the soil, together with the foundation of buildings, begins to move, but 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 painting by Russian artists is the sea depicted by one painter, and man by another? (“Pushkin by the Sea” Aivazovsky and Repin.)
3. Which of the most famous Peredvizhniki artists do you know? (Kramskoy, Perov, Savrasov, Ge, Shishkin, Makovsky, Repin, Surikov,
Vasnetsov, Levitan).
4. Which 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 with 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 painting? (Ivanov Alexander Andreevich “The Appearance of Christ to the People.”)
8. Which one great composer started his concert activities 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. Which famous Russian composer was a general of the Russian army, a scientist in the field of military engineering, a professor of engineering
academy? (Cui Caesar Antonovich.)
11. The great Russian composer Borodin died before finishing his opera “Prince Igor”. Who finished it? (Rimsky-Korsakov and Glazunov.)
12. Which famous Russian composer was a participant Patriotic War 1812, and then, based on a false denunciation, was arrested and exiled to Siberia? (Alyabyev Alexander Alexandrovich.)
13. What musical works dedicated to the legendary battleship Potemkin.? (Opera “Battleship Potemkin”, composer
N. Rechmensky.)
14. Based on the excerpt of the song, tell me what the name of the song is (and who are the authors of the lyrics and music)?
Why are you looking askance, my dear?
Bowing his head low.
It's hard to say and not say
Everything that is in my heart.
(“Moscow Evenings”, words by M. Matusovsky. music by V. Solovyov-Sedoy.)
- From these questions you can create a quiz game for participants of any age from 5th to 9th grade.
Intellectual game
"What where When?"
Target: creation of a unified intellectual space that makes it possible to popularize forms of youth intellectual leisure and identify intellectual leaders.
Tasks:
Form and develop the intellectual movement of students
Identify the strongest youth teams
Develop competitive qualities of schoolchildren
Game conditions:
Teams from grades 5-11 at school (5-6, 7-8, 9-11) take part in the game.
The team consists of 6 people.
Teams are encouraged to have a name, uniform uniform, and paraphernalia.
Methods: questions
Decor: multimedia equipment for showing presentations (slides).
Progress of the game:
Good afternoon We are glad to welcome you to the game “What? Where? When?” Today you will all 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 select the most intelligent teams in 3 age categories: 5-6 grades, 7-8 grades, 9-11 grades.
Let me remind you of the rules of the Championship game: I read out the question, you are given one minute to discuss. After a minute has passed, you give your answer. The first team to answer is the one that raised the flag first. If the answer is not correct, the right to answer is transferred to the next team. I then say the correct answer and the results of the first question are entered into the table. If a team answers a question correctly, it receives one point. In total we have 12 questions in the game.
Remember the rules. Well, now let's greet the teams...
Let's welcome the jury...
Ready in minutes
Break a leg.
Questions for teams of grades 5-6:
One day, journalist Yaroslav Golovanov proposed to the publishing house "Children's Literature" to establish a prize that would be awarded to a family in which the father is called Mikhail Ivanovich, the mother is Nastasya Petrovna, and their son is Mikhail Mikhailovich. According to Golovanov, this prize should have a name that is familiar to you.
Attention question: Which one exactly?
Time!
Answer: "Three Bears"
According to one of the African legends, the first man descended to earth from the sky.
Attention question: What animal (according to Africans, of course) helped him with this?
Time!
Answer: giraffe
You have heard the words “kolovorot”, “outskirts”, “nonsense” in Russian.
Attention question: What does this common root mean 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
A cow and a chair, a chicken and a compass, a tripod and a piano. What do every couple have in common?
Time!
Answer: number of legs.
It's 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 just keeps you warm.
The black box contains what the next riddle is about. It describes a certain technology that produces what is in the black box
Attention question: I’ll take something dusty, make it liquid, throw it into the fire, it will be a stone.
Time!
Answer: bread.
What plants do not have roots, stems, leaves, or flowers?
Time!
Answer: algae.
What sport does the term “double toe loop” refer to?
Time!
Answer: figure skating.
They say that before a long journey with a certain company, Aesop took on the largest basket. And I was right.
Attention question: What was in it?
Time!
Answer: food for the road.
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 we talking about?
Time!
Answer: About a butterfly.
We look at the number 2 and say 10?
Attention question: When does this happen?
Time!
Answer: when we look at the clock.
Questions for grades 7-8:
One of the famous labors of Hercules was cleaning the Augean stables.
Attention question: Can you name how many horses were in them?
Time!
Answer: None (there were only bulls in the barnyard of King Augeas).
In South Africa, in the vicinity of the small town of Upington, there are luxurious vineyards. During the harvesting of ripe berries, they are transported by whole dump trucks to large concrete platforms the size of a football field, and they are left there.
Attention question: Why?
Time!
Answer. This is how raisins are made.
Once upon a time in South America The Spanish conquistadors were amazed to see a creature hovering motionless in the air, surrounded by a cloud. He hastily called the priest, he looked at the miracle and announced that it was an angel.
Attention question: Who was it really?
Answer. Hummingbird.
What material is ceramic tableware 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 placed.
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...”. Complete his thought with one word.
Answer: fingers
What “balls from the Ocean” sparkle and shimmer and thus attract people so much that they gain power over them?
Time!
Answer: pearls
Inhabitants of hot deserts and semi-deserts - the fennec fox, caracal, gerbil, long-eared hedgehog and others - have rather large ears.
Attention question: Perfect hearing actually has nothing to do with it, but what role do their ears play?
Time!
Answer: cooling
Remember in which fairy tale by A. S. Pushkin it was fundamentally introduced new system wages.
Attention question: name her
Time!
Answer: 3 clicks
The black box contains the cell that makes up any living creature. This cell has a large supply of nutrients.
Question: What is in the black box?
Answer: egg
Here this man sits and sentences, and sentences, and sentences...
Attention question: Name this person’s profession!
Time!
Answer: judge
Questions for grades 9-11:
In the USA, Reebok sneakers of the original assembly are sold: the right shoe is made in Taiwan, and the left one is made in Thailand. Thus, the company significantly reduced its losses.
Attention question: Why did the company incur losses?
Answer: due to the theft of shoes from finished goods factories.
IN Lately in the West on some tourist maps, for the convenience of walking, walking isolines of equidistance from the hotel and distances are marked not in meters or km, but in what?
Answer: hours' walk
The thrifty Japanese government has called on all employees to go to work in the summer without ties or jackets.
Attention: What is the government going to save on?
Answer: on electricity spent on air conditioning
The black box contains what is called a "green camel"
Answer: cactus
Three great Russian poets dedicated their poems to this two-headed mountain: Zhukovsky, Pushkin, Lermontov.
Answer: Elbrus.
The Hebrew textbook opens with the words: “You begin to study the language spoken by...” Who?
Answer. God.
In South Africa, in the vicinity of the small town of Upington, there are luxurious vineyards. During the harvesting of ripe berries, they are transported by whole dump trucks to large concrete areas the size of a football field, and left there. What for?
Answer. This is how raisins are made.
What, from a general biological point of view, is the main difference between oriole and meadowsweet?
Answer. Oriole is an animal, meadowsweet is a plant.
Attention! Black box.
IN Ancient China The 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, water was poured into it, and the whole thing was sifted through a fine sieve. The mass settled in the sieve was tipped onto a board and pressed. The resulting product was dried and used.
Attention question: What was it used for?
Answer: The resulting paper was naturally used for writing.
In geography it is kind, in football it is the last, in song it helps to navigate in life, for historians it is a sailing ship of the first Russian round-the-world expedition.
Attention question: What is this?
Answer: hope
The famous basketball commentator Vladimir Gomelsky once complained: “It’s difficult with women’s sports, once you get used to it, you have to relearn it.”
Attention question: What exactly to retrain?
Answer: last name
In 1926 and 1948, Germany was punished for starting wars in the same way that Sparta was once punished.
Attention question: What kind of punishment is this?
Answer: German athletes were prohibited from participating in Olympic Games
Summing up and awarding winners and participants.
Package of questions for training game"What? Where? When?"
Each question is given 1 minute to think about, then the answer is given on a piece of paper.
Questions medium difficulty(for middle and high schools)
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Question 1: Gamer is a fan computer games. To play means to play, to croak means to play Quake. And how in the language of a gamer would it be to play the well-known game DOOM?
Answer: Think.
Question 2: At the end of 1997, an unusual championship took place. Its participants competed in destroying their own kind. The winner, originally from Russia, showed an excellent result - 9600 out of 10000, i.e. 96%. American competitors lagged behind by about 2%. The victims of this ruthless extermination do not evoke any sympathy, since they often poison the lives of many of us. Name them.
Answer: Computer viruses .
Question 3: Any programmer knows what “Debugging” is – the process of removing errors from a program. And this concept was born on the day when the Mark 1 computer stopped working at Harvard University. State the reason why the computer stopped.
Answer: Insects (Bugs).
A moth accidentally got on the relay contacts.
Question 4: According to the Swedish color system purple designated R50B. Explain the meaning of this designation.
Answer: 50% red and 50% blue (RED 50% BLUE).
Question 5: In the 70s, a computer program was created in the USA to simulate naval battles. As a rule, in such simulated battles she defeated real naval commanders. When people took a closer look at machine tactics, they saw a strange thing: after the end of the “battle”, before entering a new one, the computer began to shoot at one or two of its ships and sank them. Why did he do this?
Answer: A squadron cannot move faster than its slowest ship. By shooting his most damaged ships, he gained an advantage in speed.
Question 6: Leonardo Fibonacci (Leonardo of Pisa) is a major Italian mathematician, the author of the Book of Abacus (1202), which for several centuries remained the main repository of information on arithmetic and algebra. In it, he points out that there are 3 methods of calculation: one - using the abacus, the second - using numbers. Name the third one if it is the most famous and you have also used it more than once.
Answer: Using your fingers.
Question 7: While working in a text editor, we forgot to press a certain key and got 6-0 instead of what we wanted. What did you want to get?
Answer: Smiley.
Question 8: At the dawn of cybernetics, a very funny toy appeared in America: a box with a button to turn it on. When you pressed the button, a dissatisfied grumbling sound was heard from the box, then the lid swung back. A mechanical hand appeared from the box. What did she do?
Answer: She pressed the button (turned off the toy).
Question 9: This first appeared in the mid-80s. Initially it was assumed that there would be twelve main elements, as in its predecessor. But technical difficulties forced the creator to make simplifications, reducing the number of basic elements to seven. That's what determined the name of this one. Name it.
Answer: Tetris.
wanted to create a toy based on Pentamino, which has 12 main shapes. But the computers were weak and did not draw figures from five squares in real time. Then Pajitnov reduced the number of squares to 4, and, accordingly, the number of possible shapes to 7. Since there were 4 squares in each figure, he called the game Tetris.
Question 10: One of the very highly qualified and fairly highly paid categories of scientific workers in the United States bears the strange slang name “professional idiots.” What do these people do at their jobs?
Answer: Testing computer programs.
When testing programs, they must anticipate all the most idiotic mistakes that a user might make, and identify the program's reaction to them.
Question 11: The computer company Microsoft has opened a museum of the company's history. Among other exhibits, there is a red telephone on the wall. By picking up the phone, the visitor can hear the speech of the most important person in the company, according to employees. Who is this?
Answer: User (client).
When you pick up the phone, you can hear regular conversations between customers and technical support.
Question 12: This man discovered a number of errors in astronomical tables. The low reliability of manual calculations gave him the idea... What?
Answer: Creation of computers.
It is precisely the low reliability of manual calculations, and not their low speed, gave Charles Babbage the idea of creating a universal computing machine.
Question 13: Recently, the World Shooting Championships took place in Korea. The Russian national team won. Before the start of the competition, the participants took an oath. What did they take an oath on?
Answer: On a laptop.
Question 14: I wanted to get into the Guinness Book of Records. To do this, he provided the editors of the book with a list of 308 words in English, German and French, which he managed to obtain using something well known to you, but completely not intended for this. With using what?
Answer: Using a micro calculator.
Question 15: In Japan, many years ago, rats began to nest in the depths of large computers. The Japanese immediately built a “rat trap of the electronic age” - with an ultrasonic bait, a vacuum pump and a gas chamber... But other Japanese proposed a more radical method. Which?
Answer: Build more compact computers (so that rats have nowhere to nest)
Question 16: Zvenigorodsky was the first in the Soviet Union to introduce performers into school computer science. Each of the software-implemented performing robots was focused on solving specific, private pedagogical problems. Thus, a robot called “Tom Sawyer” was only engaged in formulating the concept of a cycle in children. What did this “Tom Sawyer” do?
Answer: Painted the fence.
Question 17: Jokers say that Niklaus Wirth was once invited to Italy. He arrived and asked:
– Is it true that the coolest language in the world is Pascal?
How did the Italians respond if Niklaus Wirth was very offended and since then never went to Italy again?
Answer: Si! (SI).
Question 18: This invention by Alex Osborne was kept secret from 1937 to 1957. After forced declassification, Osborne's method was used by General Motors and General Electric, which led to sharp growth arrived. Use the Osborne method and then call it.
Answer: Brainstorm.
Question 19: In a comic computer dictionary published in the magazine "Practical Computing", the concept of "Recursion" is defined in a very interesting way. The definition consists of just two words. Reproduce this definition.
Answer: See "Recursion".
Question 20: It was this word that in Turing's time was often used to describe a person who earned his living by performing arithmetic operations.
Answer: Computer (the exact translation of this word is “calculator”).
Question 21: The American company Zemso Industries produces microcalculators. Convenient buttons different colors, elegant original forms "at hand" There are even whole line calculators with a keyboard layout that is fundamentally different from the generally accepted one. Who are they intended for?
Answer: For left-handers.
Question 22: This man was born in the town of Petrovichi, Smolensk region. He graduated from Columbia University, served in the departments of chemistry and biochemistry, and wrote more than 300 scientific, popular and works of art. But most of all, he glorified his name by the three laws he discovered. What are they dedicated to?
Answer: robotics. .
Question 23: E. Dijkstra once said: “It is impossible to teach normal programming to those who started with “this language.” As potential programmers, they are mentally stupefied with no hope of recovery." Name this language.
Answer: BASIC.
Question24 : 12. The author of the question recently checked the spelling of text in Microsoft Word. The editor unexpectedly reacted to the name of one composer, commenting on it like this: “Perhaps a slang word.” Name this composer.
Answer: Glitch.
Question 25: The first world championship among them was held in 1974, although it could have taken place much earlier. After that they were held every three years. Once the victory went to the USSR, five times to the USA, once each to Germany and the Netherlands. Name their representative who managed to achieve the greatest fame in this field.
Answer: Deep Blue is about computers playing chess
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 given as a gift 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 quickened, arrhythmia began to appear, and their blood pressure jumped sharply. 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 have Italian roots. 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