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    29.06.2022

    In the numerous and diverse world of the fauna of mammals that are able to "fly", or rather plan, there are only a few. The most famous are flying squirrels, spiketails, marsupial flying squirrels and woolly wings. Here we will talk about the latter. Kaguan (Cynocephalus volans), flying maquis, or Philippine woolly wing, or simply woolly wing.

    This unusual animal belongs to arboreal mammals that live in the tropics of Southeast Asia. There are only 2 extant genera and 6 fossil genera in the Colleopteran order. Of the living, in addition to the Filipino, the Malay (lat. Cynocephalus variegatus) woolly wing is known.

    From the name it is not difficult to guess about the areola of their habitat. The first chose the Philippines, or rather, the islands of Leyte, Bohol, Mindanao, Samar and Basilan. The second is Thailand and the islands of the Indonesian archipelago.

    It is difficult to say who this animal resembles more - to someone a cat, to someone. Its dimensions are small - up to 65 cm along with the tail, weight is about 2 kg. On a small pretty muzzle there are large round dark eyes and rounded small ears.

    The small limbs of the woolly wing are equipped with sharp claws, so that it is more convenient to climb trees and hang on branches. But to plan between the trees, it is helped by a dense flying membrane that connects all the limbs, tail and neck of the animal. There are also small webs between the toes on the paws.

    By the way, the flying membrane of the woolly wing is the largest among other "flying" mammals. From above, she, like his whole body, is covered with small, soft and thick fur, which is why they called this animal a woolly wing. The coat of the kaguan varies from brown-red to grayish-brown, the light belly and the same light spots on the sides stand out only against the general background.

    Kaguanas are nocturnal animals that spend most of their lives in trees. On the ground, they can be found very rarely, since they crawl along it and can easily become prey to predators. Colleopterans spend their days in hollows, getting out of them after sunset. It is at this time that you can see their flights. In the jump, they spread their paws in different directions and stretch their tail, thanks to which the membranes are stretched as much as possible.

    The flight range of woolly wings is up to 140 m, with a height loss of only 10 m. Smaller distances (20-30 m) they actually fly in a straight line. But that's not all. By changing the tension of the membrane, the kaguan can control the direction of flight. They land in the same way as, for example, flying squirrels or. Taking a vertical position at some distance from the target, they land on the tree with all 4 limbs.

    The diet of these flying animals is purely vegetarian: buds, leaves, flowers and fruits of various trees. Interestingly, the breeding features of the woolly wings are similar to representatives of marsupials, so they are sometimes referred to as them. The female brings, as a rule, one (rarely two) small, naked and blind babies. For the first 5-6 months, he lives, firmly clinging to his mother's belly. Hanging on a branch or just sitting on a tree, the female bends her tail to her abdomen and creates a kind of protective bag for the cub. The cubs will be ready for independent life only after 2-3 years.

    Yakov Podolny (Israel) / Alexander Altshuller (Kaliningrad region) / Alexey Paevsky (Ukraine)

    FIRST ROUND: 1). ABC; 2).Men and women; 3). Flowers; four). Musical instruments; 5). Islands; 6). …tooth…
    1-300 S. Makarov developed a semaphore alphabet for the Russian fleet. AA+
    PC: "... the Russian semaphore alphabet, the Latin one already existed"
    1-400 4-volume "ABC" of stories - his - L. Tolstoy. YP+
    PC: "Bravo!"
    1-500 Bulgakov's Sharik and Mayakovsky studied the alphabet - from - signboards. YP+
    2-500 in a survey of British families, the word babe ("baby") took first place - in the list - the most disliked references to wives. -
    3-400 near the Peruvian city of Moyobamba there are 3500 species - flowers - orchids. YP+
    3-500 is the national holiday of Tajikistan sair-lola - dedicated to flowers - tulips. -
    In Uzbek, “lola” is also “tulip” (hence, a Persian borrowing), but I don’t understand how to take it without knowledge of regional languages. Well, it's true that tulips generally dominate among the natural flower flora of Central Asia, but this, I'm afraid, is a slightly simpler fact.
    4-500 Evgraf Zhivago was surprised to learn that Tonya's niece, like her grandmother, plays the balalaika. YAP-
    /PC: “Ai-ai-ai. Nobody remembers…”
    5-400 is perhaps the largest vehicle of J. Verne - in the novel - "The Floating Island". YAP-
    /YP: "Uh... a flying island, if I'm not mistaken..."
    PC: “No, no, no, the flying island is more like Swift’s” /
    5-500 island-district of Arkhangelsk, where Peter I built a shipyard - Solombala. YP+
    6-500 nickname of the 8th and 9th model "Lada" for the shape of the body - "chisel". AP+
    PC: “Sometimes they also said “chisel””
    4-300 auction.
    +900 / +300 / +500
    AP: "All-in"
    YAP: "All-In"
    PC: “Va-bank,” says Yakov Moiseevich. Understandable, understandable…”
    In the autumn of 1941, according to the directive of the People's Commissariat of Defense, 60,000 of these instruments were sent to the front - to raise the spirit of the soldiers - harmonicas. YAP-
    JP: “That makes sense…”
    0 / +300 / +500
    4-400 were made from boiled cow or goat ribs - their bones. -
    6-400 three rocks form a crater shaft - a volcano on Urup - Trident. AP+
    6-300 stage fright will not bring down if the actor has learned the role - so - by heart. AP+
    2-400 the only man does not say a word - F. Ozon's film - "Eight Women". YP+
    2-300, according to legend, penetrated to Caesar, ordering to wrap herself in a carpet - Cleopatra. YP+
    5-300 cat for Alexander Altshuller. "Sculptures", 500.
    sculpture "Russia" in 1996 - three objects under the shield - a crown, a scepter and an orb. AA-
    1-200 agents of the secret organization "Azbuka" letters served - as - nicknames. AA+
    6-200 tilacosmil - marsupial animal - (marsupial) saber-toothed tiger. -
    The question is easy, probably, the wording of the players was knocked down. The saber-toothed tiger itself is obviously not a marsupial. It would be better to say “an analogue of this animal among marsupials” or “named after this, also a fossil animal” ...
    6-100 Moscow Kremlin - 1045 "dovetails" - battlements of the wall. AA+
    3-300, unlike Russia, in the USA and Western Europe is considered to bring happiness - a bouquet - from an even number of flowers. AA+
    2-200 Suvorov ordered to carry "as they carry chickens, but very safely" - a gift to serfs - brides. -
    PC: “…Here's “how they carry chickens” – I don't know what was meant. As far as I remember, chickens are transported in cages.
    AA (smiling): “Well, yes…”
    4-200 1712 - made the cello of the Duke of Tuscany - A. Stradivarius. AA+
    4-100 attribute of poets - lyre. AP+
    1-100 letter codes were invented by Weil, a colleague of the inventor, S. Morse. YP+
    3-200 popular song performed by N. Sazonova - "Daisies hid." YP+
    /PC: "Yakov Moiseevich, of course"/
    PC: "Bravo!"
    5-200 Galeshnyak is nicknamed "the island of lovers" - it looks like a heart in shape. AP+
    3-100 auction.
    +1000 / +600 / +1500
    AP: "1000"
    In the Song of Hiawatha, the loving sighs of the south wind of Shavondazi destroyed this flower - a dandelion. AP+
    PC: "Bravo!"
    +1000 / +600 / +2500
    2-100 at the beginning of the play was unrequitedly in love with Rosaline - Romeo. YP+
    5-100 "Communism off the coast of America" ​​- jokingly deciphered the name - "Cuba". AA+

    RESULTS OF THE FIRST ROUND: +1100 / +700 / +2500

    SECOND ROUND: 1). bridges; 2). Fly hunting; 3). Questions from…; four). Spiritual affairs; 5). Solar system; 6). Length.
    6-600 is approximately equal to the length of a human step - the Russian measure is arshin. -
    6-800 To calculate the circumference of a circle, you need to know the length of - its - radius. AP+
    PC: “Remember the formula?”
    AP: "If the length, then 2πr"
    Diameter is exactly the same
    5-600 asteroid number 274301 was named after the Internet encyclopedia - Wikipedia. YP+
    At the same time, the Russian Wikipedia argued for a long time whether this asteroid has any significance for the article. These are the harsh rules ...
    1-800 Keshwa Chaka is the surviving (last) of the bridges built in the Inca empire. AP+
    5-800 the land of Lada, the plain of the Snow Maiden, the Baba Yaga canyon - on the planet - Venus. AA+
    6-1000 auction.
    +1700 / +1500 / +4100
    AA: "All in"
    YAP: "All-In"
    AP: "Pass"
    This modern competitive discipline was also included in the program of the ancient Olympics - now the record is held by Mike Powell - long jump. YP+
    PC: “And a record of 8.95. 8 meters 95 centimeters "
    +3400 / +1500 / +4100
    4-800 Piotr Njegos, canonized as Piotr Cetinsky, ruled the country of Montenegro. YP+
    PC: "Cetinje - the historical capital of Montenegro"
    4-1000 temple "on the blood" is in St. Petersburg and - the Russian regional center - Yekaterinburg. YP+
    PC: "... At the site of the execution of the royal family"
    2-800, suspended from flying by the Maestro, took off without a command and shot down the "Messer" - Grasshopper (film "Only "old men" go into battle"). YP+
    2-1000 thanks to the fur membrane fly up to 140 meters - the inhabitants of Southeast Asia - woolly wings. AP-
    /AP: "These are flying squirrels"
    PC: “This animal is called “wool-wing”, it has nothing to do with squirrels” /
    Flying squirrels, moreover, flying squirrels for all flying squirrels, are also found in Southeast Asia - taguans (and the winged wing is otherwise called very similarly - “kaguan”). In general, it somehow happened that in the region a lot of animals decided to fly - there is also a lizard, a flying dragon, and flying frogs, and even “flying” snakes (the latter only soften the fall a little, but it’s good for a snake). But colewings are, of course, the most "fancy" planners.
    1-1000 cat for AA. "To remember", 1000.
    For 60 years, millions of people have been visiting Anitkabir, the mausoleum of M.K.Ataturk, in Ankara. AA-
    5-1000 for 4 years of work, he spotted more than a hundred planets outside the solar system - the space telescope - "Kepler". AP+
    /AP: “Unfortunately, two out of three gyroscopes are now out of order…”/
    PC: "...Failed out recently"
    5-400 in the Voyager photograph from a distance of 6 billion km looks like a pale blue dot - the Earth. AP+
    AP: “This picture is called “Pale Blue Dot””
    6-200 the title of the smallest planet in the solar system passed from Pluto - to - Mercury. YP+
    4-600 a dark-skinned statue of the Savior was brought to Manila by a ship on which, according to legend - this happened - a fire. -
    JP: “It makes sense…”
    1-600 1982 - 200 students, hastily assembled in Ostankino, participated in the first event - a teleconference (USSR - USA). AP+
    Make-up artist Natalya Orekhova asks 3-200 questions.
    checking the makeup of Josephine and Daphne, the director of the film "Only Girls in Jazz" forced them to go into an institution - a women's toilet. AA+
    PC: "Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in women's make-up walked into a women's establishment, no one recognized them as men, and after that they started filming..."
    3-600 if the actor's lower eyelid is smeared with a special pencil, then the actor will do it - cry. AP+
    PC: "...There is such a special tear pencil"
    AP: “But according to Stanislavsky, it’s not supposed to be like that!”
    PC: “I know, I know… Well, what can you do. On some shootings, 15 takes are shot ... "
    AP: "Yes"
    PC: “... I went through it myself. Cry 15 times with your left eye ... "
    /Aleksey Paevsky laughs/
    PC: "...It's very hard, I think"
    3-800 film "Spring": "Medium plump, sexy #4!" - about - lips. AP+
    /AP: “Now they don’t wear such lips at all” /
    3-400 special black varnish creates the illusion of a missing tooth. AP+
    3-1000 adding talc, zinc oxide, chalk to starch - it will turn out - powder. YP+
    /YP: "White"
    PC: "White?"
    YP: "Well, powder"
    PC: "Powder, yes, Yakov Moiseevich, powder" /
    I doubt the legitimacy of the account
    2-600 in the photo - a stag flying two meters above the water - a slope. AP+
    PC: "Bravo!"
    1-200 microdistrict Khimki and a bridge to the ship - Skhodnya. YP+
    2-400 frightened of broom competition - J. Rowling: The Ministry of Magic banned the import into Britain - vehicles - flying carpets. AA+
    PC: “Even though they obviously didn’t read or watch the movie”
    6-400 Bible: 300 meters long gopher wood building - Noah's Ark. AP+
    4-200 accompanied Muhammad during the ascension to heaven - the archangel - Jabrail (Gabriel). YP+
    1-400, the Rotterdamers nicknamed the "swan", and the official name of the bridge is in honor of the great native - Erasmus of Rotterdam. -
    4-400 Teffi: either they will crush the tail of the sacred cat, or they will poke at the sacred dog, or they will eat the holy fly in borscht - the ancients - the Egyptians. YP+

    RESULTS OF THE SECOND ROUND: +8000 / +1100 / +7900

    THIRD ROUND: 1). Factories; 2). I am sitting behind bars; 3). spices; four). What from what; 5). The Bears; 6). Stairs.
    4-900 in the photo - S. Stockwell collected a map of the world - from - microcircuits. AP+
    As with the recent question about the bottle cap paintings, I could hardly distinguish any elements at all, let alone identify them. It looks different from the player's table, doesn't it?
    4-600 ugali, hominy, polenta are made - from flour - corn. YP+
    2-1200 during the Cold War, the 4 victorious powers jointly operated a prison in West Berlin - Spandau. YAP-
    PC: "...In which the Nazi criminals sentenced by the Nuremberg trials were serving time"
    2-1500 Louis XI called "daughters" - innovations in prisons - iron cages. -
    1-1200 1922 - The Petrograd knitting and hosiery factory received a new name with the order - "Red Banner". -
    From the wording of the question, one can understand that they did not just give the order and renamed it, but they named it after the order. Well, the order was the only one then. Not a bad question
    1-1500 cat for AA. "Soups", 1500.
    French bouillabaisse, Spanish gazpacho, Finnish lohikeitto, German bread soup - they are cooked in cast iron and infused for another day - lohikeitto. AA-
    /AA: "Mmm..."
    PC: "I'll remind you. French. Deutsch. Spanish gazpacho. Finnish"
    AA: "Well, let it be gazpacho"
    PC: What are you talking about? “Gazpacho… uh, well, at least the most famous in Russia, of all these soups. Well, at least bouillabaisse and gazpacho - I, for one, have some idea of ​​what it is, yes.
    Just having a general idea of ​​​​what gazpacho is (“this is such a special soup that is cold”), I also answered him. Plus "Spanish gazpacho" among just "French", "German" and "Finnish" soups could seem like a clue
    5-900 having got to the gypsies, he began to "go around the villages with a bear" - Pushkin's hero - Aleko. AA+
    5-1200 "Bear Circus" was created by V. Filatov. YP+
    PC: "Valentin Filatov, bravo!"
    5-1500 taken under protection - bears from an island near Alaska - Kodiak. YP+
    6-1500 six denominations agreed not to change anything without common consent - in the temple - the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. YP+
    The staircase, which has been standing on the ledge for two centuries, is a very interesting and funny fact, thanks to the editors! But I’ll grumble a little: the question is clearly cheaper
    3-1200 the road in front of Nero was sprinkled with water with an expensive spice - saffron. -
    Well, the Romans could not have known so many spices, plus it looks like the raw materials are floral
    3-1500 Guatemala is ahead in production even of its homeland, India - "green gold" - cardamom. -
    4-1200 auction.
    +11600 / +500 / +8800
    YP: "8800"
    PC: “Bravo, Yakov Moiseevich! Bravo"
    For the manufacture of this in Venice, the purest sand from the Po River was used, and even imported - from Istria - Venetian glass. YAP-
    /YP: "For the construction of this?"
    PC: “Yakov Moiseevich, in my opinion, you are pretending to think a lot”
    YP: "Beaches" /
    Judging by the word “construction”, Jacob at first misunderstood the question, presented some kind of construction
    +2800 / +500 / +8800
    PC: "Sorry. Keep playing, don't get discouraged"
    4-1500 from the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts annually sent a steamer with rags to England, receiving paper back. AP+
    6-900 the century before last - the world's first escalator appeared in a New York park on Coney Island. YP+
    2-900 is now a museum and the most popular holiday destination near Cape Town - the island - Robben. -
    PC: "A very famous place"
    1-900 auction.
    +3700 / +500 / +10300
    YAP: "All-In"
    PC: "Alexey, take a chance"
    AP: "No"
    PC: “We are playing with Yakov Moiseevich. Let's try our luck again."
    A century and a half ago, in the Menshikovs' estate near Klin, they began to make such toys - the factory still stands - Christmas trees. YAP-
    /YP: “Uh, wooden, as far as I… They are called locally… Carved wooden…”
    PC (without interfering for a long time): “No, Yakov Moiseevich ...” /
    But this, IMHO, is a real complex auction, in which the answer can “click” if it is invented, but there are no obvious leads in its direction. This should be set at 1500 so that the players understand where they are going ..
    By the way, it’s also interesting: how were toys made there during the New Year’s ban?

    0 / +500 / +10300
    3-900 the region of Liberia, from where the Portuguese exported the melegetu pepper, to old maps called the Pepper Coast. YP+
    PC: "Bravo!"
    Personally, I know Pepper Coast. Are both options correct, or did Pyotr Borisovich, delighted with the answer, not even begin to correct?
    5-600 in the house of the village of Jarfjord, a bear and three bear cubs destroyed sweets, drinking beer from cans. YP+
    2-600 sent abroad academician of architecture A. Tomishko to study the prison business - the Ministry of Russia - the Ministry of Internal Affairs. AP+
    6-600 at the third Odessa International Film Festival, "City Lights" was shown to live music - there - on the Potemkin Stairs. YP+
    /PC: "Odessa, give an answer!"/
    PC: “An answer was given by a person who lived most of his life in the city of Grodno”
    In, I came up with a toast to Yakov Moiseevich: so that the part of life lived in Grodno, from a larger one, becomes much, much smaller!
    1-600, the Romans called the word fabrica a small enterprise - workshops. -
    From the category of those questions where the answer is approximately clear, but you don’t understand what word they want to hear ...
    3-600 is dried strips of bark - cinnamon. AA+
    3-300 grow "organic food" by spraying an infusion of hot pepper - for the purpose - to protect against pests. AA+
    PC: "...Instead of conventional insecticides, harmful"
    5-300 the "youngest" species of bears, separated from the brown one - the polar bear. YAP-
    PC: "... And it happened, according to biologists, from 150 to 250 thousand years ago"
    AA: "Yesterday"
    2-300 G. Efron called "Bottles" - Butyrskaya prison. AA+
    PC: “As it was customary to say then -“ Butyrki ””
    4-300 at the Winter Smile festival in the Arkhangelsk region, they managed to melt a stove made of snow. AP+
    Cool!
    6-300 drawing in the cave of Valencia, which is about 100 centuries old, is the progenitor of the stairs - stepladders. AA+

    RESULTS OF THE THIRD ROUND: +1800 / +2000 / +11200

    Players remove topics:
    JP: "It's all rock 'n' roll"
    AA: "Museums of Moscow"
    AP: London
    YP: "Everyone knows them"
    AA: Encyclopedias
    AP: "Signs"

    The theme "Around the Music" is played

    Tchaikovsky dedicated three for piano, violin and cello to his memory. And in the Great Hall of the Conservatory, his portrait occupies a central position - above the stage. What are we talking about?

    Yakov Podolny: the answer is "Rubinstein" - right - the rate is 600 (2400)
    Alexander Altshuller: answer "Cui" - incorrect - rate 2000 (0)
    Alexey Paevsky: the answer "Beethoven" is incorrect - the rate is 1000 (10200)
    PC: “... I would like to remind you that Nikolai Rubinstein had a direct, if not the most important, relation to the creation of the Moscow State Conservatory - that's why his portrait is in the very center, in the Great Hall ... "

    TOTAL GAME SCORE: +2400 / 0 / +10200
    TOTAL TEAM ACCOUNTS: +5700 / +4600 / +32400

    Cumulative prize fund:
    1st place: 361.423
    2nd place: 151.534
    3rd place: 52.711

    The twenty-seventh game of the Second Team Tournament.

    Members

    Alexander Altshuler

    Alexey Paevsky

    • Yakov Podolny, pediatrician from Karmiel (Israel)
    • Alexander Altshuler, economist from Kaliningrad
    • Alexey Paevsky, science journalist from Odessa (Ukraine)

    Game progress

    First round

    Topics:

    • ABC
    • Men and women
    • Flowers
    • Musical instruments
    • Islands
    • …tooth…

    ABC (300)

    In 1895, Vice Admiral Stepan Osipovich Makarov developed exactly this for the Russian fleet.

    Alexander answers.
    Correct answer: Semaphore alphabet

    ABC (400)

    The stories from his 4-volume "ABC" have been included in anthologies and primers for 140 years.

    Jacob answers.
    Correct answer: Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

    ABC (500)

    Bulgakov's Sharik learned the alphabet from them. Mayakovsky admitted the same.

    Jacob answers.
    Correct answer: signboards

    Men and women (500)

    In a recent survey of British families, the word babe - "baby" took first place in this list.

    Correct answer: The most disliked addresses to wives

    Flowers (400)

    Peruvian Moyobamba is nicknamed the city of these flowers: up to 3500 species are found in the district.

    Jacob answers.
    Correct answer: orchids

    Flowers (500)

    The national holiday sair-lola, dedicated to these flowers, is celebrated in Tajikistan at the beginning of summer.

    Correct answer: tulips

    Musical instruments (500)

    General Evgraf Zhivago was surprised to learn that his found niece Tonya masterfully plays this instrument - just like her own grandmother, Tonya is not known.

    Jacob answers.
    Player response: Piano.
    Correct answer: Balalaika

    Islands (400)

    In this novel, perhaps the largest of the vehicles born of the fantasy of Jules Verne operates.

    Jacob answers.
    Player response: "Flying island".
    Correct answer: "Floating Island"

    Islands (500)

    From the shipyard built by Peter I on this island, 500 ships left for three centuries; now the island has become a district of Arkhangelsk.

    Jacob answers.
    Correct answer: Solombala

    …tooth… (500)

    The eighth and ninth Zhiguli models received this nickname for their body shape.

    Alexey answers.
    Correct answer: "Chisel"

    Musical instruments (300)

    Auction. In the autumn of 1941, according to the directive of the People's Commissariat of Defense, 60,000 of these tools were sent to the front to raise the spirit of the soldiers.

    Jacob plays. Rate - 900.
    Player response: drums.
    Correct answer: Harmonicas

    Musical instruments (400)

    Musical instruments (400)

    Initially, they were made from boiled cow or goat ribs. Nowadays, they are mainly made from solid wood.

    Correct answer: Bones

    …tooth… (400)

    The crater shaft of this active volcano on the Kuril Island Urup form three rocks.

    Alexey answers.
    Correct answer: Trident

    …tooth… (300)

    If the actor learned the text of the role in this way, then no stage fright will bring him down.

    Alexey answers.
    Correct answer: by heart

    Men and women (400)

    In this film by François Ozon, the only man doesn't say a word; even the audience hardly sees the face.

    Jacob answers.
    Correct answer: "Eight Women"

    Men and women (300)

    According to legend, she secretly entered Caesar from her brother, ordering him to be wrapped in a precious carpet. Plutarch clarifies: not in a carpet, but in a modest bed bag.

    Jacob answers.
    Correct answer: Cleopatra

    Islands (300)

    Sculptures (500)

    Cat in a bag. Topic: sculptures. The sculpture "Russia", created in 1896, is a masterpiece of Kasli casting. What 3 items are under the shield?

    Played by Alexander. The bet is 500.
    The player does not respond.
    Correct answer: Crown, scepter and orb

    ABC (200)

    At the end of 1917, the secret organization "Azbuka" was created in Kyiv to fight against Bolshevism. The letters of the alphabet served the agents in this capacity.

    Alexander answers.
    Correct answer: Underground nicknames

    …tooth… (200)

    …tooth… (200)

    In the Miocene, this marsupial, or tilokasmin, lived in North America.

    Correct answer: Saber-toothed tiger

    …tooth… (100)

    The Moscow Kremlin has 1045 of these "dovetails".

    Alexander answers.
    Correct answer: Battlements of the wall

    Flowers (300)

    In the USA and Western Europe, unlike in Russia, it is believed that such a bouquet brings happiness.

    Alexander answers.
    Correct answer: With an even number of colors

    Men and women (200)

    Suvorov ordered to carry this "gift", bought for his own serfs, "as they carry chickens, but very safely."

    Correct answer: Brides

    Musical instruments (200)

    In 1712 he made a cello for the Grand Duke of Tuscany; now the American Yo-Yo Ma plays the instrument.

    Alexander answers.
    Correct answer: Stradivarius

    Musical instruments (100)

    Poets consider it their attribute, even if they don’t understand anything about music.

    Alexey answers.
    Correct answer: Lira

    ABC (100)

    Letter codes, that is, the alphabet itself, were invented by his colleague Weil, which the inventor himself denied.

    Jacob answers.
    Correct answer: morse

    Flowers (200)

    This popular song performed by actress Nina Sazonova was first heard in the TV movie "My Street".

    Jacob answers.
    Correct answer: "Daisies hid"

    Islands (200)

    The Croatian island of Galesnjak is shaped like this; No wonder it is called the "Island of Lovers".

    Alexey answers.
    Correct answer: Heart

    Flowers (100)

    Auction. In the Song of Hiawatha, the loving sighs of the south wind Shavandase destroyed this flower.

    Played by Alex. The rate is 1,000.
    Correct answer: Dandelion

    Men and women (100)

    At the beginning of the play, he was unrequitedly in love with the beautiful Rosalina, but the new love turned out to be stronger.

    Jacob answers.
    Correct answer: Romeo

    Islands (100)

    The name of this island was jokingly deciphered as "Communism off the coast of America."

    Alexander answers.
    Correct answer: Cuba

    Round result

    • Jacob - 1 100
    • Alexander - 700
    • Alexei - 2 500

    Second round

    Topics:

    • Bridges
    • fly hunting
    • Questions from…
    • Spiritual Affairs
    • solar system
    • Length

    Length (600)

    This Russian measure was approximately equal to the length of a human step.

    Correct answer: Arshin

    Length (800)

    Its length must be known in order to calculate the circumference of a circle.

    Alexey answers.
    Correct answer: Radius

    Solar system (600)

    This year, asteroid number 274301 was named after this online encyclopedia.

    Jacob answers.
    Correct answer: Wikipedia

    Bridges (800)

    Bridges (800)

    The Keshwa Chaka Rope Bridge over the Apurimac River is the last surviving bridge built by the inhabitants of this empire.

    Alexey answers.
    Correct answer: Inca

    Solar system (800)

    On this planet you can find the land of Lada, the plain of the Snow Maiden and even the canyon of Baba Yaga.

    Alexander answers.
    Correct answer: Venus

    Length (1 000)

    Question-auction. This modern competitive discipline was part of the program of the ancient Olympics. Now the record belongs to Mike Powell.

    Jacob plays. Rate - 1 700.
    Correct answer: Long jump

    Spiritual Affairs (800)

    Peter Negosh, who ruled this country at the beginning of the 19th century, was canonized by the Orthodox Church as Peter Tsetinsky.

    Jacob answers.
    Correct answer: Montenegro

    Spiritual Affairs (1,000)

    There is a temple "on blood" not only in St. Petersburg, but also in this Russian regional center.

    Jacob answers.
    Correct answer: Yekaterinburg

    Fly hunting (800)

    Maestro Titarenko removed him from flying, and during a German raid, without a command, he took off on a commander’s plane and shot down a Messer.

    Jacob answers.
    Correct answer: Grasshopper

    Fly hunting (1 000)

    Fly hunting (1 000)

    These inhabitants of Southeast Asia fly up to 140 meters thanks to the fur membrane between the paws, tail and neck.

    Alexey answers.
    Player response: flying squirrels.
    Correct answer: Wormwing

    Bridges (1,000)

    To remember (1 000)

    Cat in a bag. Topic: To remember. The project of Turkish architects was preferred, and for 60 years Anitkabir in Ankara has been visited by millions of people, and not only Turks. What is Anitkabir?

    Played by Alexander. The rate is 1,000.
    Player response: National Museum.
    Correct answer: Mausoleum of Ataturk

    Solar system (1,000)

    This space telescope, which orbited the Sun, managed to “look out” for 4 years of work more than a hundred planets outside the solar system.

    Alexey answers.
    Correct answer: "Keppler"

    Solar system (400)

    In a photograph taken by Voyager from 6 billion kilometers away, it appears as a pale blue dot.

    Alexey answers.
    Correct answer: Earth

    Solar system (200)

    After Pluto was excluded from the planets, the title of the smallest planet in the solar system passed to him.

    Jacob answers.
    Correct answer: Mercury

    Spiritual affairs (600)

    Filipinos carry a dark-skinned statue of the Savior around the capital three times a year; According to legend, this is exactly what happened on the ship that brought the statue to Manila four centuries ago.

    Correct answer: Fire

    Bridges (600)

    This event first took place in 1982, although it did not go on the air. From the Soviet side, 200 students, hastily gathered in Ostankino, participated.

    Alexey answers.
    Correct answer: Teleconference with the USA

    Questions from… (200)

    Questions from the makeup artist

    Make-up artist Natalya Orekhova asks questions. Checking the makeup of Josephine and Daphne, the director of the film "Only Girls in Jazz", forced the actors to go to this institution and only then began filming.

    Alexander answers.
    Correct answer: Women's toilet

    Questions from… (600)

    If the lower eyelid of an actor is lightly smeared with a special pencil that looks like lipstick, then the actor will do it.

    Alexey answers.
    Correct answer: will cry

    Questions from… (800)

    In the film "Spring" Rina Zelyonaya as a make-up artist of the film studio commands: "Average plump, sexy number four!". What is she talking about?

    Alexey answers.
    Correct answer: Lips

    Questions from… (400)

    A special black lacquer helps to give the viewer the illusion that the actor does not have this.

    Alexey answers.
    Correct answer: Tooth

    Questions from… (1,000)

    Take starch, add talc, zinc oxide, chalk. What will happen?

    Jacob answers.
    Correct answer: Powder

    Fly hunting (600)

    Fly hunting (600)

    Who flies two meters above the water and immediately flops back?

    Alexey answers.
    Correct answer: stingray

    Bridges (200)

    This is the Khimki microdistrict, and a swing bridge for entering the ship.

    Jacob answers.
    Correct answer: Gangway

    Fly hunting (400)

    According to J.K. Rowling, the Ministry of Magic banned these "vehicles" from being brought into Britain. Not otherwise frightened of the competition brooms.

    Alexander answers.
    Correct answer: Flying carpets

    Length (400)

    Alexey answers.
    Correct answer: noah's ark

    Spiritual affairs (200)

    This archangel accompanied Muhammad during his miraculous ascension to heaven.

    Jacob answers.
    Correct answer: Jabrail

    Bridges (400)

    Bridges (400)

    The people of Rotterdam have nicknamed this graceful bridge "the swan". The official name of the bridge is in honor of this famous native of the city.

    Correct answer: Erasmus of Rotterdam

    Spiritual affairs (400)

    According to Teffi, these ancient steps could not be taken without blasphemy: either they would crush the tail of a sacred cat, or they would poke at a sacred dog, or they would eat a holy fly in borscht ...

    Jacob answers.
    Correct answer: Egyptians

    Round result

    • Jacob - 8 000
    • Alexander - 1 100
    • Alexei - 7 900

    Third round

    Topics:

    • Factories
    • I'm sitting behind bars
    • Spices
    • What from what
    • The Bears
    • stairs

    What of what (900)

    What of what (900)

    British artist Susan Stockfen put together a map of the world from this. The work took a year, you can admire it at the University of Berkfordshire.

    Alexey answers.
    Correct answer: Microcircuits

    What of what (600)

    African ugali, Romanian hominy, Italian polenta… All three porridges are made from this flour.

    Jacob answers.
    Correct answer: corn

    I am behind bars (1,200)

    Even during the Cold War, this West Berlin prison was jointly run by the four allied powers.

    Jacob answers.
    Player response: Muabit.
    Correct answer: Spandau

    I am behind bars (1,500)

    These "innovations" introduced in the Bastille and other prisons to aggravate the suffering of prisoners, King Louis XI affectionately called "daughters."

    Correct answer: iron cells

    Factories (1 200)

    In 1922, the Petrograd Knitting and Hosiery Factory, founded by the merchant Natus, received the order and with it this new name.

    Correct answer: Red flag

    Factories (1 500)

    Soups (1 500)

    Cat in a bag. Topic: Soups. Here are French bouillabaisse, Finnish Lohikeito, Spanish gazpacho and German bread soup. Only this soup is supposed to be cooked in a cast-iron and left for another day.

    Played by Alexander. Rate - 1 500.
    Player response: gazpacho.
    Correct answer: lohikeyto

    Bears (900)

    This Pushkin hero, having got to the gypsies, began to "go around the villages with a bear", which extremely outraged the romantic Ryleev.

    Alexander answers.
    Correct answer: Aleko

    Bears (1 200)

    The “Bear Circus” created by him was filmed in the films “Arena of the Brave”, “Michelle and the Bear”, “Not all bears sleep in winter”.

    Jacob answers.
    Correct answer: Valentin Filatov

    Bears (1 500)

    Bears (1 500)

    These bears from an island near Alaska are taken under state protection - their numbers have declined sharply.

    Jacob answers.
    Correct answer: Kodiak

    Stairs (1 500)

    Stairs (1 500)

    Six denominations agreed not to change anything in this temple without a common consent. So the stairs, who knows how to get on the ledge, do not touch for two centuries.

    Jacob answers.
    Correct answer: Church of the Holy Sepulcher

    Spices (1 200)

    Correct answer: Cardamom

    What of what (1 200)

    Auction. The purest sand from the Po River, or even imported sand from Istria, was used to make this in Venice.

    Jacob plays. Rate - 8 800.
    Player response: Yarn.
    Correct answer: Glass

    What from what (1 500)

    Every year a ship with dirty rags was sent from the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts to England, and this was exactly what they got back.

    Alexey answers.
    Correct answer: drawing paper

    Stairs (900)

    In the century before last, the first in the world appeared in a New York park on Coney Island for the amusement of the public. It acquired its modern look 27 years later. What are we talking about?

    Jacob answers.
    Correct answer: Escalator

    I'm behind bars (900)

    Spices (900)

    The Portuguese exported pepper miguetta from the coast of present-day Liberia. On old maps, the region is called that way.

    Jacob answers.
    Correct answer: Pepper Coast

    Bears (600)

    In the Norwegian village of Jarfjord, a bear and three cubs broke into a house in the absence of their owners, destroying honey and chocolate and washing down sweets from cans with these contents.

    Jacob answers.
    Correct answer: Beer

    I'm behind bars (600)

    In the century before last, this Russian ministry sent the academician of architecture Anthony Tomishko abroad. To study the prison case.

    Alexey answers.
    Correct answer: MIA

    Stairs (600)

    At the third Odessa Film Festival "City Lights" Chaplin was shown there to the live music of the Philharmonic Orchestra.

    Jacob answers.
    Correct answer: On the Potemkin Stairs

    Factories (600)

    The Romans called the word fabrica such a small enterprise.

    Correct answer: Workshops

    Spices (600)

    This spice is dried strips of bark.

    Alexander answers.
    Correct answer: Cinnamon

    Spices (300)

    Farmers who grow "organic food" spray hot pepper infusion for this purpose.

    Alexander answers.
    Correct answer: For pest control instead of conventional insecticides

    Bears (300)

    This species, separated from the brown bear, is now the "youngest".

    Jacob answers.
    Player response: Grizzly.
    Correct answer: Polar bear

    I'm behind bars (300)

    The son of Marina Tsvetaeva Georgy Efron in his diary calls this institution, where both his father and sister were "Bottles".

    Alexander answers.
    Correct answer: Butyrskaya prison

    What of what (300)

    At the Winter Smile festival in the Arkhangelsk region, the local team not only built a stove out of it, but also managed to flood it.

    Alexey answers.
    Correct answer: Snow

    Stairs (300)

    The image of the progenitor of just such a staircase was found in one of the caves of Valencia. The drawing is about 100 centuries old.

    Alexander answers.
    Correct answer: Ladder

    Round result

    • Jacob - 1 800
    • Alexander - 2 000
    • Alexei - 11 200

    Final round

    Topic: Around the music

    Tchaikovsky dedicated a trio for piano, violin and cello to his memory. And in the Great Hall of the Conservatory, his portrait occupies a central position above the stage. What are we talking about?

    Jacob's answer: Nikolai Rubinstein
    Rate - 600.

    Alexander's answer: Cui
    The rate is 2,000.

    Alexey's answer: Beethoven
    The rate is 1,000.

    Correct answer: Nikolai Rubinstein

    Outcome of the game

    • Jacob - 2 400
    • Alexander - 0
    • Alexei - 10 200

    Aleksey Paevsky is declared the winner of the game. The Ukrainian team advances to the final games.

    With the set of groups in the Middle Kingdom, things have not been going very well lately, and God himself ordered to move further south and east in my study of the Asian part of the world.

    The route I chose is the following:

    Novosibirsk - Vladivostok - Singapore - Manila - Palawan Island (Philippines) - Hong Kong - Macau - Novosibirsk.

    He (the route) began to look like this due to the numerous sales of air tickets.

    For example, the section Vladivostok - Singapore, with a transfer in Hong Kong, cost me only 10,000 rubles. Well, how can you resist? Other flights also indulged in low cost. Flying within Asia is generally cheap. You only need to catch one of the sales on local low-cost airlines, and for this, in turn, you need to constantly monitor the sites of several airlines for a long time.

    Singapore.

    In my opinion, everything has already been written about this miracle city. I will announce my opinion about a three-day stay in this city-state.

    I did not apply for a visa, since 96-hour visa-free transit is provided for citizens of the Russian Federation. In principle, this time is enough to explore the main attractions of Singapore.

    I would like to especially note the airline "Singapore Airlines". Flight Hong Kong - Singapore, I mastered the largest Airbus A-380. Flying it is pure pleasure. The level of comfort in the local "economy class" is much superior to our domestic "business class" in everything.

    In my opinion, the statement that Singapore is very clean city, a bit overpriced. The city center is polished, but it is worth visiting the Indian quarter - and everything will become clear. Dirty and stink.

    Everyone smokes only in designated areas. These places can be identified by the presence of urns in them. How unusual and wild!

    Prices in Singapore are very high for everything. After China, it was very unpleasant for me to pay 15-20 singadollars (1 dollar - 27 rubles) for lunch or dinner. And this is in an ordinary eatery. I didn’t drink beer at all, because 250 rubles for a jar of this drink is crazy price!!!

    Where have I been...

    Sightseeing tour by bus around the city, swept on the local Ferris wheel, "Magic Gardens" of Marina Bay, the beaches of Sentosa Island, where I got on the cable car, and, of course, the casino of Singapore!

    The casino at the Marina Bay Hotel left the most pleasant impressions. This is both the environment and the outcome of the Poker Game. I won't reveal how much I won, but Singapore cost me free...

    By the way... Not a bad option for traveling. I arrived, admired the sights, rested, played in a casino, won - I left with my friends. But for such an option, the main thing is the last ... Then how lucky.

    Also got caught in the local kind of rain! It's certainly SOMETHING... A solid wall of water falling from the sky! It rains every evening in Singapore!

    Well, a couple of photos for the Pleziru.

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