20 questions from the TV show "Weak Link", to which only scholars can answer

A cappella. In a broad sense, such singing is called any vocal music without instrumental accompaniment. It can be not only choral, but also solo performance.

Hope. Pandora, the wife of Prometheus's younger brother, found out that they had a chest at home that could not be opened. Curiosity prevailed, the casket was opened, and misfortunes and misfortunes flew out and scattered around the world. Only hope remains at the bottom.

Conductor. In conductors, an electric current can arise under the action of an applied electric field, but not in dielectrics. For example, metals, salt solutions, wet soil are conductors, and glass, cardboard and gas are dielectrics.

In the northeast, Cuba is washed by the Atlantic Ocean, in the south by the Caribbean Sea, and in the northwest by the Gulf of Mexico.

Red. There is a special rhyme that helps to remember the colors of litmus in different environments: “The indicator litmus - red / Acid will indicate clearly. / The litmus indicator is blue, / The alkali is here - don't be silly. / When is a neutral environment, / He is always purple. "

Four strings. They are called like this: salt, re, la, mi. G is the thickest string, mi is the thinnest.

Jupiter. It is a giant planet, its diameter is ≈ 139 820 km. For comparison, the diameter of the Earth is ≈ 12,742 km.

Zero and 180 ° meridian divide the Earth into Western and Eastern hemispheres. The Equator, the longest parallel, divides the Earth's surface into the Southern and Northern Hemispheres.

Aristotle. He, in turn, was a student of Plato.

A conclave is a meeting of cardinals convened after the death or retirement of a pope to elect a new pope.

Mausoleum. The drawings of the first wooden mausoleum were prepared by the architect in a few hours, and it was erected in two and a half days. The granite tomb monument was built later, in the 30s.

Postcards. Philokarty is called collecting, studying and organizing postcards, that is, postcards.

In the Italian town of Verona. Here is a quote: "Two equally respected families / In Verona, where events meet us, / They are fighting internecine / And do not want to calm the bloodshed."