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Inhabitants of southeast asia flying 140 meters. April travel across Southeast Asia (36 photos)

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

FIRST ROUND: 1). ABC; 2). Men and women; 3). Flowers; 4). Musical instruments; 5). Islands; 6). …tooth…
1-300 S. Makarov developed a semaphore alphabet for the Russian fleet. AA +
PC: "... Russian semaphore alphabet, Latin before that already existed"
1-400 4-volume "ABC" of stories - his - L. Tolstoy. YP +
PC: "Bravo!"
1-500 Bulgakov Sharik and Mayakovsky studied the alphabet - by - signs. YP +
2-500 in a survey of British households, babe came first in the list of most disliked calls to wives. -
3-400 near the Peruvian city of Moyobamba there are 3500 species - flowers - orchids. YP +
3-500 national holiday of Tajikistan sairi-lola - dedicated to flowers - tulips. -
In Uzbek, “lola” is also “tulip” (hence, Persian borrowing), but I don’t understand how to take it without knowing regional languages. Well, it's true, tulips generally dominate among the natural floral flora of Central Asia, but I'm afraid this is a slightly simpler fact.
4-500 Evgraf Zhivago was surprised to learn that Tonya's niece, like her grandmother, plays the balalaika. NS-
/ PC: “Ay-ay-ay. Nobody remembers ... "/
5-400 is perhaps the largest vehicle of J. Verne - in the novel - "The Floating Island". NS-
/ YAP: "Uh ... a flying island, if I'm not mistaken ..."
PC: "No, no, no, the flying island is more likely at Swift's" /
5-500 island-district of Arkhangelsk, where Peter I built a shipyard - Solombala. YP +
6-500 the nickname of the 8th and 9th model "Zhiguli" for the body shape - "chisel". AP +
PC: "Sometimes they also said" chisel "
4-300 auction.
+900 / +300 / +500
AP: "Va-bank"
YP: "Va-bank"
PC: “Va-bank,” says Yakov Moiseevich. I see, I see ... "
In the fall 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 soldiers - harmonica. NS-
YAP: "It is quite logical ..."
0 / +300 / +500
4-400 were made from boiled cow or goat ribs - their bones. -
6-400 three rocks form a crater wall - a volcano on Urup - Trident. AP +
6-300 stage fright will not knock 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" 1996 - three objects under the shield - crown, scepter and orb. AA-
1-200 agents of the secret organization "Azbuka" letters served - as - nicknames. AA +
6-200 tilakosmil - marsupial - (marsupial) saber-toothed tiger. -
The question is easy, probably, the players' wording 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 - of an even number of flowers. AA +
2-200 Suvorov ordered to carry "as they carry chickens, but very well" - a gift for serfs - brides. -
PC: “… Here's how they carry chickens - I don't know what they mean. As far as I remember, chickens are carried in cages "
AA (smiling): "Well, yes ..."
4-200 1712 - made the cello of the Duke of Tuscany - A. Stradivari. AA +
4-100 the attribute of poets is the 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 Galshnyak is nicknamed "the island of lovers" - it looks like a heart. AP +
3-100 auction.
+1000 / +600 / +1500
AP: "1000"
In the Song of Hiawatha, the loving sighs of the southern wind Shavondazi destroyed this dandelion flower. 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" - they jokingly deciphered the name - "Cuba". AA +

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

SECOND ROUND: 1). Bridges; 2). Fly hunting; 3). Questions from ...; 4). Spiritual matters; 5). Solar system; 6). Length.
6-600 is approximately equal to the length of a human step - Russian measure - arshin. -
6-800 To calculate the length of a circle, you need to know the length - its - the radius. AP +
PC: "Do you remember the formula?"
AP: "If the length, then 2πr"
The diameter fits exactly the same
5-600 asteroid number 274301 was named after the Internet encyclopedia - Wikipedia. YP +
At the same time, they argued for a long time in Russian Wikipedia, but is there any significance for this asteroid's article. These are the harsh orders ...
1-800 Keshwa Chaka - the surviving (last) of the bridges built in the Inca Empire. AP +
5-800 Lada land, Snegurochka plain, Baba-Yaga canyon - on the planet - Venus. AA +
6-1000 auction.
+1700 / +1500 / +4100
AA: "Va-bank"
YP: "Va-bank"
AP: "Pass"
This modern competitive discipline was also included in the program of the ancient Olympiads - now the record for Mike Powell - long jump. YP +
PC: “And the record is 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 - historical capital Montenegro "
4-1000 there is a church "on blood" in St. Petersburg and - in the Russian regional center - Yekaterinburg. YP +
PC: "... At the site of the execution of the royal family"
2-800, suspended from flights by the Maestro, took off without a command and shot down a "messer" - Grasshopper (film "Only" old men "go to battle"). YP +
2-1000, thanks to the fur membrane, they fly up to 140 meters - the inhabitants of Southeast Asia are woolly wings. AP-
/ AP: "These are flying squirrels"
PC: "This animal is called" woolly wing ", it has nothing to do with squirrels" /
Flying squirrels, moreover, all flying squirrels are flying squirrels, in Southeast Asia there are also - taguans (and the woolly wing is called differently in a very similar way - "kaguan"). In general, it somehow happened that in the region many animals decided to fly - there is a flying dragon lizard, and flying frogs and even "flying" snakes (the latter only soften the fall a little, but for a snake it is good). But woolly wings are, of course, the most sophisticated planners.
1-1000 cat for AA. "To be remembered", 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 spotted more than a hundred planets outside the solar system - the space telescope - "Kepler". AP +
/ AP: “Unfortunately, two gyroscopes out of three are out of order for him now ...” /
PC: "... Out of order recently"
5-400 in the Voyager photograph from a distance of 6 billion km looks like a pale blue dot - Earth. AP +
AP: "This picture is called" Pale Blue Dot ""
6-200 the rank 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 - it happened - a fire. -
YAP: "It is logical ..."
1-600 1982 - 200 students, hastily gathered in Ostankino, participated in the first event held - a teleconference (USSR - USA). AP +
Make-up artist Natalia Orekhova asks 3-200 questions.
checking Josephine and Daphne's make-up, the director of the film "There are only girls in jazz" forced them to enter the establishment - the women's toilet. AA +
PC: "Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis in women's makeup entered the women's establishment, no one identified them as men, and after that they started filming ..."
3-600 if the lower eyelid of the actor is lubricated with a special pencil, then the actor - will do it - will cry. AP +
PC: "... There is such a special tear pencil"
AP: "And according to Stanislavsky it is not supposed to be!"
PC: “I know, I know ... Well, what can I do. On some shootings they shoot 15 takes ... "
AP: "Well yes"
PC: “… I went through it myself. 15 times to cry with the left eye ... "
/ Alexey Paevsky laughs /
PC: "... I think this is very difficult."
3-800 film "Spring": "Average 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 absence - of a tooth. AP +
3-1000 adding talc, zinc oxide, chalk to starch - it turns out - powder. YP +
/ YAP: "White"
PC: "White?"
YAP: "Well, powder"
PC: "Powder, yes, Yakov Moiseevich, powder" /
I doubt the validity of the credit
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 was frightened of competition by brooms - J. Rowling: Ministry of Magic banned import to Britain - vehicles- flying carpets. AA +
PC: "Although they obviously haven't read it and haven't watched the film"
6-400 Bible: construction of gopher wood 300 meters long - Noah's ark. AP +
4-200 accompanied Muhammad during his ascension to heaven - the archangel - Jabrail (Gabriel). YP +
1-400 people called Rotterdam "the swan", and the official name of the bridge - in honor of the great native - Erasmus of Rotterdam. -
4-400 Teffi: either the sacred cat's tail will be crushed, then they will poke at the sacred dog, or they will eat the holy fly in the borscht - the ancient Egyptians. YP +

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

THIRD ROUND: 1). Factories; 2). I am sitting behind bars; 3). Spices; 4). What is what; 5). The Bears; 6). Ladders.
4-900 in the photo - S. Stockwell assembled a map of the world - from - microcircuits. AP +
As with the recent question about bottle cap paintings, I could hardly distinguish any elements at all, let alone identify them. Looks different from the player's table, right?
4-600 ugali, hominy, polenta are made from corn flour. YP +
2-1200 during the Cold War, 4 victorious powers jointly ran a prison in West Berlin - Spandau. NS-
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 knitwear and hosiery factory received a new name with the order - "Red Banner". -
From the wording of the question, it can be understood that they were not just given an order and renamed, but named 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 - of which it is cooked in cast iron and infused for another day - lohikeitto. AA-
/ AA: "Mmm ..."
PC: “Let me remind you. French. German. 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 - for example, I 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 it. Plus "Spanish gazpacho" among simply "French", "German" and "Finnish" soups might seem like a clue
5-900, having got to the gypsies, he began to "bypass the villages with a bear" - Pushkin's hero - Aleko. AA +
5-1200 The 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 confessions agreed not to change anything without a common consent - in the temple - the Church of the Holy Sepulcher. YP +
The staircase, which has been standing on the cornice 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 speckled with water with an expensive spice - saffron. -
Well, the Romans could not have known many spices, plus it looks like the raw material is floral
3-1500 Guatemala is ahead of even its homeland, India - "green gold" - cardamom in production. -
4-1200 auction.
+11600 / +500 / +8800
YP: "8800"
PC: “Bravo, Yakov Moiseevich! Bravo"
The purest sand from the Po River was used to make this in Venice, or even imported - from Istria - Venetian glass... NS-
/ YAP: "For the construction of this?"
PC: "Yakov Moiseevich, in my opinion, you are pretending to be thinking hard"
YP: "Beaches" /
Judging by the word "construction", Yakov at first misunderstood the question, presented some kind of construction
+2800 / +500 / +8800
PC: “It's a shame. Play further, don't be discouraged "
4-1500 from the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts annually sent a steamer with rags to England, receiving paper back. AP +
6-900 century before last - the world's first escalator appeared in New York Park on Coney Island. YP +
2-900 now - a museum and most popular place recreation near Cape Town - Island - Robben. -
PC: "A very famous place"
1-900 auction.
+3700 / +500 / +10300
YP: "Va-bank"
PC: "Alexey, take a chance"
AP: "No"
PC: “We play 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 is still standing - Christmas trees. NS-
/ YAP: "Uh, wooden, as far as I am ... In the place they are called ... Carved wooden ..."
PC (for a long time without interfering): "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 region of Liberia, from where the Portuguese exported the pepper "melegetu", to old maps called - Pepper Coast. YP +
PC: "Bravo!"
Personally, I know it as the Pepper Coast. Are both options correct, or Pyotr Borisovich, delighted with the answer, did not even correct it?
5-600 in the house of the village of Yarfjord, a bear and three cubs destroyed the sweets, drinking beer from cans. YP +
2-600 sent abroad the academician of architecture A. Tomishko to study prison affairs - the Ministry of Russia - the Ministry of Internal Affairs. AP +
6-600 at the third Odessa International Film Festival with live music shown "Lights big city"- there - on the Potemkin Stairs. YP +
/ PC: "Odessite, give an answer!" /
PC: "The answer was given by a man who lived most of his life in the city of Grodno"
In, he came up with a toast for Yakov Moiseevich: so that the part of life lived in Grodno becomes much, much smaller from the larger one!
1-600 the Romans used the word fabrica for 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 cinnamon bark strips. AA +
3-300 growing "organic food", spray the 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, is the polar bear. NS-
PC: "... And it happened, according to biologists, from 150 to 250 thousand years ago"
AA: "Yesterday"
2-300 G. Efron called "Bottles" - Butyrka prison. AA +
PC: "As it was then customary to say -" Butyrki ""
4-300 at the Winter Smile festival in the Arkhangelsk region they managed to melt a furnace made of snow. AP +
Cool!
6-300 drawing in a cave of Valencia, which is about 100 centuries old, is the ancestor of the ladder - stepladder. AA +

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

Players remove threads:
YAP: "It's all rock and roll"
AA: "Museums of Moscow"
AP: "London"
YAP: "Everyone knows them"
AA: "Encyclopedias"
AP: "Signs"

The theme "Around the Music" is played

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

Yakov Podolny: the answer "Rubinstein" is correct - the rate is 600 (2400)
Alexander Altshuller: the answer "Cui" is incorrect - the rate is 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 to say the most important, relation to the creation of the Moscow State Conservatory - that is why his portrait is in the very center, in the Great Hall ..."

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

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

Twenty-seventh game of the Second Team Tournament.

Participants

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

Themes:

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)

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

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Lev Nikolaevich 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, babe came first on this list.

Correct answer: The most disliked calls to wives

Flowers (400)

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

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Orchids

Flowers (500)

The national sairi-lola holiday dedicated to these flowers is celebrated in Tajikistan in early summer.

Correct answer: Tulips

Musical instruments (500)

General Evgraf Zhivago was surprised to learn that his found niece Tonya is masterly playing this instrument - just like his 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 imagination of Jules Verne takes place.

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

Islands (500)

500 ships left the shipyard built by Peter I on this island in three centuries; now the island has become a region 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 fall 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 spirits of the soldiers.

Jacob is playing. The rate is 900.
Player response: Drums.
Correct answer: Accordions

Musical instruments (400)

Initially, they were made from boiled cow or goat ribs. Nowadays, they are produced mainly from hardwood.

Correct answer: Bones

... tooth ... (400)

The crater wall of this active volcano on the Kuril island Urup are formed by three rocks.

Alexey answers.
Correct answer: Trident

... tooth ... (300)

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

Alexey answers.
Correct answer: By mouth

Men and women (400)

In this film, François Ozon is the only man who does not speak a word; even the viewers hardly see the face.

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: "Eight Women"

Men and women (300)

According to legend, she infiltrated Caesar secretly from her own brother, ordering herself 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 poke... Theme: Sculptures... The sculpture "Russia", created in 1896, is a masterpiece of Kasli casting. What 3 items are under the shield?

Alexander plays. The rate is 500.
The player does not give an answer.
Correct answer: Crown, scepter and orb

ABC (200)

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

Alexander answers.
Correct answer: Underground nicknames

... tooth ... (200)

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

Correct answer: Saber-toothed tiger

... tooth ... (100)

The Moscow Kremlin has 1,045 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 well."

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: Stradivari

Musical instruments (100)

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

Alexey answers.
Correct answer: Lyre

ABC (100)

The letter codes, that is, the alphabet itself, was 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 performed in the TV movie "My Street".

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: "Chamomile hid"

Islands (200)

The Croatian island of Galešnjak is similar in shape to this; not for nothing is nicknamed "the island of lovers".

Alexey answers.
Correct answer: Heart

Flowers (100)

Auction... In the Song of Hiawatha, the loving sighs of the southern wind of Shavandaze ruined this flower.

Alexey plays. 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 Rosaline, 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
Alexey - 2 500

Round two

Themes:

Bridges
Fly hunting
Questions from ...
Spiritual matters
solar system
Length

Length (600)

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

Correct answer: Arshin

Length (800)

You need to know its length in order to calculate the circumference.

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)

The Keshwa Chaka Rope Bridge over the Apurimak 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 Snegurochka plain and even the Baba Yaga canyon.

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 is for Mike Powell.

Jacob is playing. The rate is 1,700.
Correct answer: Long jump

Spiritual Matters (800)

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

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Montenegro

Spiritual Matters (1,000)

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

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Ekaterinburg

Fly hunting (800)

Maestro Titarenko removed him from flights, and when the Germans raided without a command, he took off on the squadron commander's plane and shot down the Messer.

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Grasshopper

Fly hunting (1,000)

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

Alexey answers.
Player response: Flying squirrels.
Correct answer: Woolwing

Bridges (1,000)

To be remembered (1,000)

Cat in a poke... Theme: To be remembered... The project of Turkish architects was given preference, and for 60 years now Anitkabir has been visited by millions of people in Ankara, and not only Turks. What is Anitkabir?

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

Solar System (1,000)

This space telescope, revolving around the Sun, managed to "spy out" more than a hundred planets outside the solar system in 4 years of work.

Alexey answers.
Correct answer: Keppler

Solar System (400)

In a photograph taken by Voyager from a distance of 6 billion kilometers, 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 Matters (600)

Filipinos carry a dark-skinned statue of the Savior through 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 took part, hastily gathered in Ostankino.

Alexey answers.
Correct answer: Teleconference with the USA

Questions from ... (200)

Questions from the makeup artist

Make-up artist Natalia Orekhova asks questions... Checking the makeup of Josephine and Daphne, the director of the film "There are only girls in jazz", forced the actors to enter this institution and only then began filming.

Alexander answers.
Correct answer: Female toilet

Questions from ... (600)

If the actor's lower eyelid is lightly lubricated with a special pencil that looks like lipstick, then the actor will do it.

Alexey answers.
Correct answer: Cry

Questions from ... (800)

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

Alexey answers.
Correct answer: Lips

Questions from ... (400)

A special black varnish helps to create the illusion of the actor lacking this in the viewer.

Alexey answers.
Correct answer: Tooth

Questions from ... (1,000)

Take starch, add talc, zinc oxide, chalk. What happens?

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Powder

Fly hunting (600)

Who takes off two meters above the water and then flops back down?

Alexey answers.
Correct answer: Stingray

Bridges (200)

This is the Khimki microdistrict, and the drawbridge for entering the ship.

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Gangway

Fly hunting (400)

According to J.K. Rowling, the Ministry of Magic has banned these "vehicles" from entering Britain. Not otherwise they were afraid of competition with brooms.

Alexander answers.
Correct answer: Flying carpets

Length (400)

Alexey answers.
Correct answer: Noah's ark

Spiritual Matters (200)

This archangel accompanied Muhammad on his miraculous ascension to heaven.

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Jabrail

Bridges (400)

The people of Rotterdam have nicknamed this graceful bridge "the swan". The bridge is officially named after this famous native of the city.

Correct answer: Erasmus of Rotterdam

Spiritual Matters (400)

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

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Egyptians

Round result

Jacob - 8 000
Alexander - 1 100
Alexey - 7 900

Third round

Themes:

Factories
I sit behind bars
Spices
What from what
The Bears
Stairs

What is what (900)

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

Alexey answers.
Correct answer: Microcircuits

What is what (600)

African ugali, Romanian hominy, Italian polenta ... All three cereals 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 four Allied Powers.

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

I'm behind bars (1 500)

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

Correct answer: Iron cells

Factories (1 200)

In 1922, the Petrograd knitwear 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 poke... Theme: Soups... Here is French bouillabaisse, Finnish lohikeito, Spanish gazpacho and German bread soup. Only this soup is supposed to be cooked in a cast iron and insisted for another day.

Alexander plays. The rate is 1,500.
Player response: Gazpacho.
Correct answer: Lohikeito

Bears (900)

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

Alexander answers.
Correct answer: Aleko

Bears (1200)

Created by him, "Bear Circus" starred 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)

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

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Kodiak

Stairs (1,500)

Six confessions agreed not to change anything in this church without a general agreement. So the stairs, who knows how they got to the cornice, have not been touched for two centuries.

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Church of the Holy Sepulcher

Spices (1200)

Correct answer: Cardamom

What is what (1 200)

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

Jacob is playing. The rate is 8 800.
Player response: Yarn.
Correct answer: Glass

What is what (1 500)

From the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, a steamer with dirty rags was sent to England every year, and this was exactly what they received 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 the island of Coney Island for the amusement of the public. It acquired its modern look 27 years later. What is it about?

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Escalator

I'm behind bars (900)

Spices (900)

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

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Pepper shore

Bears (600)

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

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: Beer

I am behind bars (600)

In the century before last, this Russian ministry sent the academician of architecture Anthony Tomishko abroad. For studying prison affairs.

Alexey answers.
Correct answer: Ministry of Internal Affairs

Stairs (600)

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

Jacob answers.
Correct answer: On the Potemkin Stairs

Factories (600)

The Romans used the word fabrica for such a small enterprise.

Correct answer: Workshops

Spices (600)

This spice consists of dried bark strips.

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" species.

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 father and sister were "Bottles".

Alexander answers.
Correct answer: Butyrskaya prison

What is what (300)

At the Winter Smile festival in the Arkhangelsk region, the local team not only made a furnace out of this, but also managed to fire 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
Alexey - 11 200

Final round

Theme: Around 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. Who are we talking about?

Jacob's answer: Nikolay Rubinstein
The rate is 600.

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

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

Correct answer: Nikolay Rubinstein

The outcome of the game

Jacob - 2 400
Alexander - 0
Alexey - 10 200

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

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

I chose the following route:

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

It (the route) began to look exactly like that due to numerous sales of air tickets.

For example, the Vladivostok - Singapore section, with a change in Hong Kong, cost me only 10,000 rubles. How can you resist? Other flights were also pampered with low cost. It's generally cheap to fly in Asia. You just need to catch one of the sales on local low-cost airlines, and for this, in turn, you need to constantly monitor the websites 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, as there is a 96-hour visa-free transit 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". I have mastered the Hong Kong - Singapore flight on the largest Airbus A-380. It is a pleasure to fly on it. The level of comfort in the local "economy class" is far superior to our domestic "business class" in everything.

In my opinion, the statement that Singapore is a very clean city is a little overstated. The city center is licked, but once you visit the Indian Quarter, everything will become clear. Dirt and stench.

Everyone smokes only in the right places. These places can be found by the presence of urns in them. Somehow strange and wild!

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

Where I've been ...

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

The casino at the Marina Bay Hotel left the most pleasant experience. This is both the setting and the outcome of the Poker Game. I won't announce the winnings, but Singapore cost me free ...

By the way ... Not a bad travel option. I came, admired the sights, rested, played in the casino, won - left with my friends. But for such an option, the most important thing is the latter ... How lucky you are.

Also caught in a local rain species! It is certainly SOMETHING ... A solid wall of water falling from the sky! In Singapore, it rains every night!

Well, a couple of photos for the plesiru.

N. DOMRINA

Be able to fly! From time immemorial, man dreamed of being free, subjugating air space... But, striving for flights, he managed to create for himself only "improvised" mechanisms. He has not yet managed to get up directly into the air. Birds and even insects are destined to be skilled flyers, as they rely on the lifting force of the wings and a lightweight skeleton. But it turns out that there are other inhabitants of the animal world, who are not equipped with anything specially for flights, but are able to lift themselves into the air and exist there for some time. A strange community of a wide variety of animal forms, including fish, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals. The ability to fly actively is not characteristic of them, of course. But they can hover, glide through the air, and then land softly. And to do it boldly, purposefully or, conversely, slowly, as if enjoying your magnificent skill. From jumping to gliding, the range of aerial exercises performed by these unusual and mostly obscure land creatures. Probably, this is how the birds once began their flights, eventually conquering the heavenly space. But now we will talk about animals living in forests, in trees. Jumping or, if you prefer, flying from one tree to another in search of food and shelter, these "smart" creatures simply save themselves the ascent and descent. In the same areas where the trees do not grow too closely, ordinary jumping from branch to branch was not enough. And I had to master gliding flights - both for life and for survival.

With the help of its fluffy tail, the squirrel "rules" in the air.

While in the air, the flying squirrel stretches its leathery membrane between the front and hind legs, which gives the fur coat of the hovering animal a very elegant look.

The flying dragon is a rarity among reptiles.

The three-phase flight of a flying squirrel reveals multiple exposures.

Despite his great growth and the lack of special devices for flying, the sifaka from the island of Madagascar became the best aerial acrobat among his relatives - half-monkeys.

Stretching the webbing between the fingers and toes, the Borneo flying frog flies short distances.

In flight, a folded gecko from South Asia.

Flying Dragon. This small lizard of the genus Agamida got its name for its unusual ability for gliding flight for reptiles. As a special device for moving through the air, flying dragons have something that partly resembles a bird's wings - two wide skin folds. These folds are located on the sides of the body and are supported by the highly elongated last five to seven false ribs, which provide mobility of the dragon's "wings". In the normal state, the "wings" are folded and adjoin the body, only in the air a flying dragon spreads them like a brake parachute. Another pair of flat skin outgrowths are found on the sides of the neck.

Flying dragons live in rainforest, places of their main distribution: Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Sumatra, Borneo, South India. Dragons spend most of their lives in trees. They descend to the ground only to lay eggs or if the flight from tree to tree fails, which, however, happens extremely rarely. Typically, dragons climb the tops of trees. From there they jump down, then at a fairly high speed they switch to a controlled gliding flight, sometimes changing direction both in the vertical and in the horizontal plane, and after the deceleration phase they accurately land “in the given area”. In open terrain, flying dragons are capable of flying 60 meters or more, although, as a rule, their flight range still does not exceed 50 meters.

After landing, flying dragons immediately again climb up the trunks of trees, absorbing insects living there along the way.

Flying dragons rarely catch the eye of people, because they are remarkably adapted to environment and know how to remain invisible.

Proteins. Squirrels, of course, cannot keep up with the outstanding achievements of flying dragons in soaring in the air. They do not have a "sail", the very special device on the body that most good flyers... But squirrels have learned to do without such special devices.

Jumping from tree to tree is vital for the squirrel: this is how it finds food and escapes from enemies. The squirrel does not make long, power jumps and, having chosen a target, reduces to a minimum the distance between the place of start and "branching". For jumping, squirrels use the outer area of the crown, jumping from the thinnest branches that can barely support their weight. Therefore, it is quite possible to say that proteins travel through the air on purpose. The tail is the steering wheel. Having fluffed it up, the squirrel inhibits free fall, holding in given direction... However, despite this, squirrel jumps always take place with a significant loss of height.

Flying squirrels... In terms of living space and food needs, those living in Asia, Europe and North America flying squirrels are almost indistinguishable from ordinary squirrels. They also live in the woods, they are nutcrackers and fruit lovers, just as curious, playful and good-looking. But as for the ability to fly, there are significant differences. For all their acrobatic treetop walks, ordinary squirrels are no match for flying squirrels.

The advantage of flying squirrels is the presence of a leathery membrane. It is located between the front and hind legs and at rest surrounds the body of the animal, like a coat. Preparing for flight, the flying squirrel protrudes special cartilage or sickle-shaped bones on the wrists, stretching the membrane.

In a weightless gliding flight, a dwarf squirrel (its body length is a maximum of 15 centimeters, weight is 70 grams) flies 50 meters. The flying rodent regulates the flight altitude, its direction and speed by raising and lowering its "arms", as well as using a long fluffy tail.

The largest flying squirrel is the giant flying squirrel, or taguan.

The length of her body is more than 60 centimeters, the tail is the same length. In flight, the animal resembles a small airship. Like all flying squirrels, he is active mainly at night. Prefers to eat foliage. Taguan often settles for housing near a person: in gardens, in bird houses or on the roofs of houses. But he behaves so secretly that almost no one notices him.

Geckos... These prehensile lizards are renowned for their upside down rock climbing on steep slopes thanks to microscopic bristles on their toes. There are half a million such bristles on each paw, and each bristle is also covered with tiny hairs. Geckos are found throughout the tropics and subtropics.

Of course, one born to crawl cannot fly. And most of the 670 species of geckos adhere to this rule. Only the Madagascar flat-tailed gecko, as well as the lobe-tailed gecko from South Asia, are at risk of flying short-distance gliding flights. The ability to fly is provided by the wide folds of skin bordering the torso and legs, and the flat leathery fringe on the sides of the tail.

Frogs When talking about frogs, one thinks about their ability to swim and jump, but hardly about their ability to fly. However, the Borneo flying frog and its related tree frog can do just that. Both have highly developed membranes between the fingers and toes, which expand in the air and significantly reduce the rate of fall. A tree frog, whose body length is about 7 centimeters, can cover a distance of several meters in a gliding flight.

Snakes. There are many adventure stories about reptiles, but there are not so many pages for flying kites. Only the decorated tree snake and the common decorated snake from South Asia can fly. These snakes throw themselves down from the height of 15-20 meter coconut trees. During the jump, the snake flattens the body in a horizontal plane, strongly pulling in the stomach. At the same time, the abdominal and tail flaps, equipped on the sides with a sharp longitudinal keel, form a small air cushion that inhibits free fall so that fragile animals do not receive damage when hitting an obstacle.

The decorated tree snake performs its airborne exercise when it eats all the lizards and geckos on the palm tree where it sits. Having moved to another tree, the snake again rushes into the depths of the branches.

Marsupial Flying Squirrels... The climbing marsupials of Australia of three different forms: dwarf flying couscous, marsupial flying squirrel and giant flying couscous (aka large flying possum).

Among all flying marsupials, the Australian dwarf flying couscous, even in its homeland, is the perfect crumb, since this acrobatic barely reaches the size of a mouse. Despite the fact that he is not afraid of closeness to a person, no one knows who is there in the middle of the night hunting for insects in the garden.

Flying marsupials are much more noticeable, like all flying marsupials with a typical webbing on the sides of the body. As on an inflatable pillow, these by no means rare marsupials the size of a cat glide at a distance of up to 50 meters. And it happens that mothers fly with children on their backs or babies in a bag.

Even more impressive than the marsupial flying squirrel is the giant flying couscous, whose body length reaches 50 centimeters. True, he does not belong to the marsupial squirrel, but to the koala family. In marsupial squirrels, the membrane is on the outer fingers, while in the "giants" it is only on the elbows. This determines a different flight path: in flying squirrels it is more rectangular, in giant couscous it is closer to triangular.

Semi-monkeys... Among lemurs, the most diverse family of semi-monkeys in Madagascar, sifaki (or crested indri) are absolute masters of jumping and flying. When flying, they do not rely on air bags or sailing equipment, but only on the strength of their legs. The sifak headfirst flies rapidly from trunk to trunk and from branch to branch. Jumps of 10 meters or more are not uncommon for him.

Woolwing. These animals, living in Southeast Asia, stand in isolation from all mammals. Their "air suit" consists of a dense, fur-covered webbing that connects the neck, front and hind legs, and tail.

Woolwings live in trees in tropical and equatorial forests. Having climbed into the upper part of the crown, they rush into the air and soar silently, almost without losing height. They easily fly between trees growing one from another at a distance of up to 70 meters. And the maximum flight range for wool-wings is 130-140 meters, while the loss of height is only 10-12 meters.

We will continue our story about unusual flyers next time.

Based on materials from the "Das Tier" magazine (Germany).

In the numerous and diverse world of mammalian fauna, which are able to "fly", or rather to plan, only a few. The most famous are flying squirrels, spiny tails, flying squirrels and woolly wings. Here we will talk about the latter. Caguan (Cynocephalus volans), flying poppies, or Filipino woolly wing, or simply woolly wing.

This unusual animal belongs to arboreal mammals that live in the tropics of Southeast Asia. In the order of wool-wings, there are only 2 modern genera and 6 fossil genera. Of the living, in addition to the Filipino, the Malay (lat.Cynocephalus variegatus) wool wing is known.

From the name it is not difficult to guess about the areola of their habitat. The first was chosen by 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 - someone a cat, someone. Its dimensions are small - up to 65 cm with the tail, its weight is about 2 kg. On a small pretty face, there are large round dark eyes and rounded small ears.

The small limbs of the woolly wing are equipped with sharp claws to make it easier to climb trees and hang on branches. But to plan between trees he is helped by a dense flying membrane that connects all the limbs, tail and neck of the animal. Small membranes are also located between the toes.

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

Caguanas are nocturnal animals that spend most of their life in trees. On the ground, they can be found very rarely, since they crawl along it and can easily become the prey of predators. Woolen wings spend their days in hollows, getting out of them after sunset. It was at this time that you can see their flights. In a 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 loss of height of only 10 m. Smaller distances (20-30 m) they fly in fact 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 to the target, they land on a 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 characteristics of woolly wings are similar to representatives of marsupials, so they are sometimes referred to as them. The female brings, as a rule, one (less often two) small, naked and blind baby. The first 5-6 months he lives, clinging tightly to his mother's abdomen. Hanging on a branch or just sitting on a tree, the female bends her tail to the abdomen and creates a kind of protective bag for the cub. The cubs will be ready for independent life only in 2-3 years.