Game “What? Where? When?" for schoolchildren. Scenario
Intellectual Championship of the game “What? Where? When?" for schoolchildren.
Melnikova Tatyana Vladimirovna, teacher - organizer of the MBOU DOD "Palace" children's creativity", Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk region.Description of material: The material will be of interest to teachers, deputy directors of educational work, organizers of extracurricular activities. The game includes a series of intellectual competitions. One of the rounds of the intellectual game is presented.
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
Conditions for the Championship:
Teams from secondary schools take part in the Championship.
The team consists of 6 people, students in grades 6-8.
A manager works with the team and supervises the work throughout all stages of the Championship.
Teams are encouraged to have a name, uniform uniform, and paraphernalia.
Methods: questions
Design: multimedia equipment for showing presentations (slides).
Progress of the game:
Emblem:
Presenter:
Good afternoon We are glad to welcome you to the game “What? Where? When?".
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.
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. There are a total of 24 questions in the game, after I read half the questions, you have a 5 minute break in order for you to rest. After the break, the game resumes again. Remember the rules. Well now Let's welcome the teams...
Let's welcome the jury.
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Let me remind you: Each team has its own individual number, which is kept throughout the game, the jury does not know which school has which number, so we have an anonymous game.
Ready in minutes
No fluff, no feather.
Questions 1-12
1. In the list of symbolic names it is located exactly in the middle. However, it is believed that she leaves this life like a captain from a dying ship.
Attention question: Who is she?
Time!
Answer: Hope
2. The Greeks said this about an uneducated person: “He can neither write nor....” Continue the phrase with one word for the ancient Greeks, considering that it has nothing to do with literacy, and we are talking about some kind of physical action.
Time!
Answer:"...swim".
3. In a work well known to you, the birth of the main character, her development, her color and becoming are described. This work also mentions two seasons, two representatives of the fauna - a rodent and a predator, an elderly man and children. I hope all of the above is enough to name main character this work.
Attention question: Name it.
Time!
Answer: Herringbone. Comments: Based on the plot of the song "A Christmas tree was born in the forest."
4.According to the custom of the ancient Romans, they drank 8 cups for the health of Octavian. For Vespasian's health - 9.
Time!
Attention question: How many cups did they drink for Seneca’s health?
Answer: 6. Comments: Number of letters in the name.
5. Recently, a new diet has become fashionable in Italy. Its essence comes down to consuming foods in a strictly defined sequence. You should start eating, for example, with raspberries, tomatoes or salmon. Then, after a short break, you can indulge in bananas, fried potatoes or a bun with butter. And for dessert - greens, cucumbers or kiwi fruits. By definition, both “white deaths” – sugar and salt, as well as black caviar and eggplant – are excluded from this diet. If you understand the principle on which this diet is based, you can easily write its name.
Time!
Answer:"Traffic light".
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"
7.B Ancient Rus' silver bars served as money - they were called hryvnia. If the item was worth less than the entire block, then half was cut off. Money too!
Attention question: What was the name of the severed piece of silver bar?
Time!
Answer: This part of the silver bar was called a ruble. This is where the name of the monetary unit came from - the ruble.
8.During the First World War, newspapers reported one interesting incident that happened to a French pilot. He was flying on an airplane at an altitude of about 2 km and suddenly saw that some object was moving near him. When the pilot grabbed it with his glove, he was very surprised.
Attention question: What was that?
Time!
Answer: Bullet.
9. Try to continue the Arabic wisdom: “The brave man is tested by war, the wise man is tested by anger...”.
Attention question: And what tests a friend?
Time!
Answer: Need.
10. A certain Ananda Tur, at the age of 6, took her peers hostage and made demands: 100 kg of sweets and broadcast cartoons on TV. According to her, she decided to do this because her grandfather read her a certain well-known book.
Attention question: Which one?
Time!
Answer: Guinness Book of Records. She wanted to go there as the youngest terrorist.
11.According to one of the African legends, the first man descended to earth from the sky.
Attention question: And what animal (according to Africans, of course) helped him with this?
Time!
Answer: giraffe
12.Cow and chair, chicken and compass, tripod and piano.
Attention question: What do every couple have in common?
Answer: number of legs.
Commands during the game:
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, 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 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 THEM 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 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 (there were only bulls in the barnyard of King Augius).
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 is it?
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 forbidden by order to watch THIS in order to protect their monetary allowance 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. 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.
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: using the keyword “questions” (“stupid questions”, “stupid questions”, “answer questions”, etc.).
Question 4: Writer Sergei Ivanov compared the January sun with HER. SHE usually shines several times a day, and for a 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 a red balloon was first raised on a high mast, 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 the ancient history of his family, once said: “My ancestors were not among the first settlers who arrived in 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: 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 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 of the last word changed. Play this title.
Answer: Smoke on the daughter.
Question 20:
A Twitter user commented on the resignation of Yuri Luzhkov with the words “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.
Cult TV show “What? Where? When?" aired for the first time September 4, 1975. Its founder is Vladimir Voroshilov and his wife Natalia Stetsenko. For 39 years now, it has been broadcast every week and certainly pleases the audience. It became so popular in the CIS that it even led to the appearance of a sports version. The TV game itself changed the rules more than once and was constantly modified. Of course, over the years of the program’s existence, experts have given answers to a lot of complex questions, from which it is difficult to choose the most interesting ones.
In honor of the anniversary of the legendary Soviet show, we publish some of the most interesting questions"What? Where? When?"
1. The absurd disappearance of the 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.
2. Discoveries
What unites the great discoveries of Mendel and Mendeleev?
Answer: Mendel's doctrine of heredity and periodic law Mendeleev's chemical elements are united by the fact that both of these discoveries were made in a dream.
3. The 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. 70 year old - 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.
4. The invention of the woman who is kissed on the forehead
The black box contains what you think American writer Christopher Morley, invented by a woman who was often kissed on the forehead. Attention, question: what's in the black box?
Answer: According to American writer Christopher Morley, a woman who was often kissed on the forehead came up with... high-heeled shoes.
5. Sell old calendars
One of the stores in the city of Chekhov, Moscow region, did not manage to sell out all available desk calendars for 1995 before the New Year. Under what name did they begin to be sold in 1995, if their sales increased sharply as a result?
Answer: Toilet paper
8 interesting facts about “What? Where? When?"
1. The very first episode was a competition between two families, filming took place at their home, and there was no host at all. The TV show was edited for broadcast. Only in 1976 did a top with a pointer and players at the table appear.
2. The first presenter to appear on the TV show was Alexander Maslyakov. There were no minutes of discussion in those programs, and the answer was given to whomever the arrow of the top pointed at. The first participants were MSU students who were not on the same team. Everyone played for themselves.
3. The first questions were thought up by Vladimir Voroshilov himself and members of the film crew. Then bags of envelopes of letters from TV viewers arrived, and a special editorial team was even created to select the best questions.
4. In 1979, the concept of “connoisseur” appeared, and the television show itself began to be called the “connoisseur club.”
5. Books served as prizes for connoisseurs and television viewers in the 70s and 80s. These were special editions famous authors, new literature and collectible collections from several volumes.
6. New times have dictated their terms to all experts and founders of the TV show. In 1991, “What? Where? When?" turned into an “intellectual casino”. It was possible to earn money solely with your mind: both experts and television viewers. Since 2001, only TV viewers can win money; experts play for fame and honorary awards. 7. Vladimir Voroshilov, who hosted the program for more than 20 years, entered the hall only if the “zero” sector fell out. After his death in 2001, the name of the new presenter was hidden, and his voice was processed on a computer. When a “zero” was rolled, the question was read from the control room. Later, Boris Kryuk revealed his name and became the permanent host of the “intellectual casino”. During all this time, he appeared on air only 2 times. 8. The feature of the game is " Musical break”, which players can order under high pressure. The first artist to perform on a television show after the innovation in 1986 was Andrei Makarevich.
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 their left hand 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 railway 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 a new wife, and the next morning he executed her. 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 - the right or 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 "crystal 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 a figurative meaning - now we call it the motivating reason (an incentive to work, an 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 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 Moliere'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 types of greens, meat, etc.?
This dish is called potpourri in French. They also began to call piece of music 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 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. 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 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 is it?
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 in Ancient Babylon and has 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 proposed restoring life in it using large amounts of lime. What ingenious way have local authorities found to solve this problem?
There is a confectionery factory on the shore of this lake. In her yard there is a constant accumulation of huge amount eggshells are an excellent calcareous 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 Under Secretary of Post for the Colonies, decided to find out the reasons for this and, after studying the logbooks and maps 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 is the word. It was not for nothing that 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 a second, larger napkin, the guest could take the treat home.
31. Once the Chancellor of the German Empire, Bismarck, went hunting in Russia, but at the very first pothole, the coachman knocked the chancellor into the mud.
At the sight of the chancellor yelling at him, the coachman said only one word, and the “iron chancellor” liked it so much that he ordered it to be engraved on his family ring, and then said it often throughout his life. What is this word?
"Nothing!" In Russian it is ambiguous: okay, let it be, it doesn’t matter, everything is in order, so be it, no big deal.
32. In 1989 he turned 100 years old. The dimensions are the same in three dimensions – 39 mm each. Located at a depth of 9 m underground. What is this?
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.
In this article I will talk about the general principles of the game “What? Where? When?" and I’ll show you how to take questions, even if you don’t really understand the topic. While preparing the material, I relied on my personal experience And " Methodical manual for those who want to train in a sports ChGK.” You will find more in it interesting examples and theoretical foundations.
Why?
In 10th grade, when I just started playing ChGK, I didn’t like it at all. Our team couldn't answer a single question, and we all felt like complete idiots, so we left the tournament upset. For the next 6 months I didn’t remember about ChGK.
What went wrong? The fact is that we did not understand the technology of the game itself, we did not know that most of questions can be answered without reading fiction or huge reference books. We fell into a stupor every time we realized that none of us had read or watched any movie, book or knew the story. However, the answer is almost always contained in the question itself, you just have to be careful. Now I think that knowing the theory of ChGK and having a little experience, we would have been able to answer a lot more questions; the tournament was simple. School.
Where to start?
You won't be able to do it without any preparation. Sports ChGK has existed for more than 20 years, so questions on some topics have become standard and even typical. The database of such questions is secretly called “Bingo ChGK”. You can find a complete database on the Internet, just google “CHGK wiki”. Studying it will not take much time, but you will become familiar with basic topics and questions, and also acquire the necessary background to get started. Pay attention to the “first questions” section. The most popular tasks for the first position in the tour are presented there. In the ChGK, the question can often be tied to its number.
Example:
6th Russian ChGK Championship. Saransk. 1st round 02/25/2006. Question 1:
The website of the Gorky Film Studio says that Kostroma merchant Mikhail Trofimov founded the Rus film studio, which was later renamed the Gorky Film Studio. Thus, Trofimov gave the film studio THIS. Call THIS in three words.
Solution: It was at this film studio that the film “A Start to Life” was shot.
Answer: “A start to life”
In this article we will look at the main mistakes when working in a team and ways to unwind issues.
Teamwork
One of the necessary skills in team play is to keep the question form. The form of the question is the part of the question that addresses what you are specifically being asked about. In other words, this is how you should write the answer on the form. The form sets the direction for reflection and helps to cut out from the entire set of options those that obviously do not fit it.
If you don’t keep in shape and don’t specifically concentrate on remembering it, then you can end up in the wilds. different versions and emotional discussions about losing her. Or you may even come up with the correct answer, but when it comes time to write the answer on the form, difficulties begin. Often, when the captain asks the team what he needs to enter, he hears several versions at once from different team members; this creates confusion and panic, because if you don’t have time to write an answer, the swallows may simply pass by and not take it. Then all your efforts will be in vain. Swallows are people who collect answer sheets.
The multitude of form options puts the captain in an awkward choice situation, placing additional responsibility on him because if he chooses the wrong form and the question is not counted, he may feel guilty. Such situations should be avoided, so it is important to assign one person to write the question form. He will remember it, relieving responsibilities from other team members. During the reasoning, he will also constantly remind the captain so that he can choose the right tactics, and the team in general does not stray away from the desired answer.
For example, you are asked “Name the artist, the most famous painting which was inspired by such and such events.” The team can discuss for a long time, trying to guess what picture they are talking about. Having found the correct answer, everyone can happily forget about the form and write the name of the picture on the answer form. This is a very common mistake among teams that do not follow the form rule.
Working with a Question
Simplifying the issue
Method 1. The essence of this technique is to split big question into small meaningful parts that are easier to solve.
Example:
Question (Festival Stone Flower — 2007):
In Robert Browning's poem, a lame, crippled boy complains of loneliness and lack of friends. He also talks about a wonderful country that he heard about and which he was never destined to visit. What city did this boy live in?
Solution: You should break this question into several parts and think about their solution. After this the question becomes very simple. So, we have a wonderful country that everyone is talking about. Moreover, everyone goes to this wonderful country, but the boy cannot get there. Why? The boy is crippled - lame. What do we get in the end? All the children heard something and went somewhere, but one couldn’t. It is easy to guess that everything happened in Gammeln.
Comment: It's about about the Pied Piper of Hamelin - a character from a medieval German legend.
Method 2. If you feel that the question is very difficult, but not because large quantity semantic blocks, but due to a lot of third-party information, the first method will not help. We should try to shorten the question by eliminating from it everything that, apparently, does not directly help answer it. That is, at the end you should only have the quintessence of the question: the question form + the facts of the question (restrictions). General rule– the more words there are in the question, the more likely it is that the thrown out word will not be critical. Don't forget that you can always accidentally throw out a keyword.
Example:
Question (II Olympic Cup LUK, Kharkov, 2004):
A lot is known about the characters of the Japanese cartoon Sailor Moon. There are dossiers on them on the website smproject.h1.ru. The dossier contains name, age, birthday, zodiac sign, height and several other characteristics. One of these characteristics of the character Ami Mitsuno is represented by the letter "A". Where was this characteristic located in the hero of the famous song?
Solution: There is a lot of precise information in this question that is distracting. Does it make sense? Let's try to remove it. What will happen: What characteristic of a person can be designated by the letter “A”? And where can it be placed? Yeah!
Answer: On the sleeve. (The letter “A” can indicate blood type)
Search for strange words
The point is that you are looking for some word or part of the question that seems unnatural, deliberately emphasized, even superfluous. Often these types of words are key. After finding similar parts of the question, you can often hear exclamations from teammates - “That's strange, because **** has nothing to do with the topic at all. Why did they put it here?”
Example:
Question (10th Israeli Championship, 2005):
The character of the story “Expedition to the Underworld,” the space pirate Two-Headed Yul, had deep scars on his body, as if from fox bites. In fact, it was SHE who bit the old pirate. Another character in the story, a doctor, said that such wounds are one of the few that he cannot and does not want to treat. We have IT, so we don't ask you to name the doctor. Call HER.
Solution: IN this issue The sentence “We have IT, so we don’t ask you to name the doctor” clearly stands out. Why aren't we asked to name the doctor? Most likely, we simply cannot know the name of the doctor, so if they asked us to name him, they simply would not have ... a conscience.
Answer: Conscience.
Abbreviation
To answer some questions you need to add up keywords or only from the first letters something meaningful (or not entirely meaningful).
Example:
Question (Ukrainian Championship among students. Kharkov, 2005):
The editors of one of the Tambov newspapers write about their publication this way: “The newspaper of the region’s universities, perky, businesslike.” Name what they think is intended “to soften the hearts of the readers.”
Solution:It is enough to take the abbreviation and get the name of the newspaper “GVOZD”. But something is missing, isn't it?
Answer: Soft sign.
Complete overkill.
Sometimes you are asked to name something very specific and well-known, then you can try to simply go through all the options. This method is situational: it should be used only if the question form requires an answer from a limited set: the names of months, famous Russian poets of the 18th century, any global and large-scale events. Do not forget that there is a great danger of getting bogged down and not finding an answer. Besides, the author could have something completely different in mind.
Example:
Question (Championship of the “Children of Kolomna” club at ChGK, St. Petersburg, 2003): Quote: “And insert set stones into it in four rows. Nearby: ruby, topaz, emerald - this is one row. Second row: carbuncle, sapphire and diamond. Third row: yakhont, agate and amethyst. Fourth row: peridot, onyx and jasper. They must be inserted into golden sockets.” What should be carved on these stones?
Solution: Just such a case. It’s unlikely that the long list of stones tells us anything, but there is the number twelve. You can stop there and ask yourself, what could be twelve?
Answer: Names of the tribes of Israel.
Out of plane
Here it is appropriate to quote Yuri Vashkulat: “In these questions, as a rule, the author tried to arrange the information in such a way that the emerging associative connection or logical series would lead away from a rather banal answer. For example, I achieved that literary hero was mistaken for a person, a person - for inanimate object, successfully used homophony, synonymy, and suggested incorrect connections between words in a sentence. Accordingly, by abandoning the obvious conclusion and adopting a different starting point, one often sees that it is required to answer who was killed in a duel by Dantes.” How do you understand that you are faced with a question of this type? Most likely it will contain: a monotonous list of similar objects; a very short question with little information; strange use of proper names; using synonyms instead of keywords, which may also have a different meaning.
Example:
Question (Championship of the “Children of Kolomna” club at ChGK, St. Petersburg, 2003):
The heroine of the writer Sergei Bolmat was going to do THIS using the letter “L”. American actress Peg Entwistle did THIS using the letter "H" in 1932. Name the city in which she did THIS.
Solution: The way out of the plane will be that you need to not get hung up on the many options for using an abstract letter. What if this letter is quite specific? Then where or what can the letter “H” be located in?
Answer: Los Angeles (She committed suicide by throwing off the “HOLLYWOOD” sign).
Conclusions
Now you have a better understanding of how PGC questions are constructed and taken. However, this is only a small part of the whole theory and I wrote only about what was useful to me. Of course, you can read everything (it definitely won’t be superfluous), but the answer to the question is always creativity rather than hacking with a set of master key methods. My team, even with knowledge of them, often takes barely more than half, because the main component of a successful game is experience, and we still have very little of it. The more you play, the better you get. The main thing is that the game process brings you pleasure.
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