Connoisseurs, attention! 15 questions from the program “What? Where? When?" to warm up the brain
Recreation / / December 31, 2020
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After World War I, Barrett vests came into fashion in London. They were pike (sewn from fabric with a relief pattern), velvet, silk and with many pockets that were filled by the firm itself. What were these vests based on?
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Bulletproof vests. And metal plates were placed in the pockets.
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When King Solomon was sad, he looked at his ring, and he became cheerful. And when the king was having fun, he looked at the ring, and he felt sad. What was written on the ring?
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Everything passes and this will pass.
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Mathematician Martin Gardner came up with this riddle: 2Bv ~ 2B =? Translate what is written here into English tongue.
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To be, or not to be, that is the question. "To be or not to be, that is the question ..." - this is a line from the play "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare.
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Princess Dashkova, the future director of the Russian Academy of Sciences, while traveling across Europe, stayed for one night at a hotel in the city of Danzig. Entering her room, the princess was surprised to see in the most prominent place a canvas depicting the victory of the Prussian troops over the Russians. In the picture, the defeated Russian soldiers on their knees begged the victorious Prussians for mercy.
The princess did not have enough money to buy out this shameful painting and burn it. However, she came up with something better. The next morning, sleepy, but satisfied, Dashkova left Danzig. What did the princess do at night?
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The princess took out the paints and repainted the uniforms so that the Russian troops were victorious, and the Prussian ones were defeated.
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Find the unusual in this picture, add it with the usual and answer in what year Marc Chagall painted his self-portrait.
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In a self-portrait, Chagall has seven fingers on his left hand - this is unusual, and five fingers on his right hand is usual. They add up to 12. This means that the self-portrait was painted in 1912. True, some sources indicate that the canvas was created at the junction of 1912 and 1913.
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They say that, flying first class, we do not pay for special services, but for a good company. What did the first class passengers of the stagecoaches of mountainous Austria pay for, despite the fact that they all sat together and did not feed them?
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When the stagecoach approached the hill, the first class passengers remained inside, the second - got out and walked, and the third - pushed the vehicle.
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In 1557, the Welshman Robert Record wrote the following lines: "Nothing is more equal than two parallel lines." What is he believed to be the inventor of?
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Equal sign.
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In the work of the Israeli writer Meir Shalev there is an episode in which a teacher is studying with a student and says: “This is not a piano that needs to be pushed. It is not a stone to be lifted. This is not a balloon to hold. This is not a blind man who needs to be shown the way. What is hidden under the word "this"?
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Woman. So the teacher explained to the student how to deal with the partner during the dance.
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There was a tradition in Papua New Guinea: from time to time, tribes exchanged teenagers. Who did these children later become?
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Each tribe spoke its own language. A teenager, falling into a foreign tribe, quickly mastered the language and became a translator.
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“She has six faces and 21 eyes” - what subject do the English talk about?
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Dice.
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In the programs of classical music of the early 20th century, it was customary to tell the audience how to behave during a particular performance. For example, in the concert program of the first symphony meeting, spectators were asked not to put binoculars on the barrier and not to move around the hall during the performance. At concerts in memory of Alexander Scriabin - do not demand performance in excess of the program. What was not allowed to do during the performance of Sergei Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil?
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Applaud. This piece is performed with gaps between parts, the pauses are embedded in its fabric. Therefore, the programs of Sergei Rachmaninoff's All-night Vigil contained a warning: "Applause is not allowed."
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In the 18th century, fairs were often held in Moscow in the Kitai-Gorod area. During them, balloons were launched into the sky in front of the crowd. Who arranged these performances?
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The thieves. They did this to distract buyers or sellers and steal something while everyone was looking at the sky.
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Attention: black box! Do you know the invention of Jonathan Carr, invented to make children more eager to reach for education? He also made the first 500 tons of what is in the black box. What is there?
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Baby cookies in the form of alphabet letters.
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Experienced pastry chefs are said to recommend to beginners when making Viennese strudel use a newspaper. Why do they need it?
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When teaching novice pastry chefs, experienced mentors require rolling out dough so thin that a newspaper can be read through it.
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With the onset of spring, in the first sunny days, a special group of ants is the first to get out of the nest. Throughout the day, these insects make short-term forays into nature: they will stay in the air, then return to the anthill for a minute - and again outside. Why are they doing that?
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In the spring, when the sun begins to warm up, this detachment of insects crawls to the surface and takes sun baths. The temperature of the ant rises rapidly by 10-15 degrees, and he hurries to the dwelling to warm it with his own heat. The detachment is called so - heat carriers.
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