30 questions from the show "The smartest" that will help shake your brain
Miscellaneous / / April 04, 2023
Answer what language is spoken in Caracas and what people Itzcoatl ruled.
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What was the name of the mythical king who imprisoned Daedalus and his son Icarus in a labyrinth?
Minos. The cruel Cretan king so punished Daedalus for helping his wife Pasiphae, the mother of the monster Minotaur.
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What female name comes from the Latin word for sea?
Marina. This is an analogue of the Roman name Marin, which comes from marīnus - "sea".
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What poet gave Pushkin a portrait with the inscription "To the winner-student from the defeated teacher"?
Vasily Zhukovsky. Together with Pushkin, he was a member of the Arzamas literary society and helped the young poet. Zhukovsky sent a gift to Alexander Sergeevich in honor of the completion of work on the poem "Ruslan and Lyudmila".
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What is the name of the inhabitants of the city of Kislovodsk?
Kislovodsk residents. A woman living in Kislovodsk is a Kislovodsk woman, a man is a Kislovodsk dweller.
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What mountain system is located on two continents - in North and South America?
Cordillera.
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Under which king did the printer Ivan Fedorov establish a printing house in Moscow?
under Ivan the Terrible. It opened in 1553 on Nikolskaya Street.
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What drink was invented by a pharmacist from Kutaisi by adding tarragon extract to carbonated water?
Tarragon. This is another name for tarragon.
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How do people call the area of land equal to one aru?
Weaving.
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What natural area occupies the central part of Australia?
Desert.
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Which villain from Alexander Volkov's fairy tale was assisted by the bear Thumper?
Urfin Deuce.
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What is the name of the saying that the author places before the beginning of his work?
Epigraph.
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What language is spoken by the majority of the inhabitants of the city of Caracas, the capital of Venezuela?
In Spanish.
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What continent is Malawi located on?
Africa.
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What horned animal is depicted in the painting "The Rape of Europe" by Valentin Serov?
Bull. Zeus turned into him in order to take possession of the daughter of the Phoenician king.
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How many even natural divisors does 4 have?
Two: 2 and 4.
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On which island did Edmond Dantes, the hero of the novel by Alexandre Dumas, build an underground palace?
Monte Cristo. Dantes used the name of the island as one of his fictitious names.
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What is the voltage of an AA battery?
1.5 volts.
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What mineral gave the name to pasta carbonara?
Coal. According to one version, the pasta was named after its inventors - Italian coal miners. According to another - in honor of the Carbonari (from Italian "coal miners") - members of a secret society in the first half of the 19th century.
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What mythical bird is depicted on the coat of arms of Indonesia?
Garuda. Before the advent of Islam, most of the country's population professed Buddhism, in which this mythical king of birds is revered.
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What type of polygon is a parallelogram?
Quadrilaterals.
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The ruler of which Indian people in the 15th century was Itzcoatl, the uncle of Montezuma I?
Aztecs.
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What were the shoes of Nils, the hero of Selma Lagerlöf's fairy tale, made of?
From a tree.
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What geometric figure gave the name to the construction of the rotunda?
Circle. The name of the building comes from the Italian rotonda - circle. Buildings of this type repeat its shape.
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In what sport is the Kasamatsu vault performed?
In gymnastics. To perform the element, you need to do a flip with a turn of 180 ° and a somersault forward.
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What do philocartists collect?
Postcards.
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Which writer invented the language of the Dwarves "Khuzdul"?
John Tolkien. This is one of several languages that the writer created for The Lord of the Rings and other works about Middle-earth.
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For what singing voice was Natasha's part written in the opera "War and Peace"?
Soprano.
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How many sounds are in the word "snake"?
Five. The letter "i" gives two sounds: [th] and [a]. The transcription of the word will look like this: [zm'y'a].
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In which cartoon did the chameleon help the inhabitants of a desert town return water?
"Rango".
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Galatea was the wife of which mythical sculptor?
Pygmalion. He carved Galatea out of ivory and fell in love with the beautiful sculpture. Aphrodite revived her after the prayers of the sculptor.
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The questions are taken from the episodes of the program for 01/14/2006, 02/18/2006, 09/12/2010, 09/18/2011, 02/19/2012, 03/10/2012, 03/18/2012 and 12/31/2012.
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