Blitz-poll
What is the smallest prime number?
2
What always increases and never decreases?
Age
Which wheel does not spin on a car when making a right turn?
Spare wheel
The question is asked by William Shakespeare
Old English was very different from modern English. But there are some words that you can recognize. Translate the words of old English into modern English: drenkan, slepan, nyne, sunne, god nigt
drink, sleep, nine, sun, good night
An African tribe Suahili has a legend about the first man who walks down the sky on earth.
• What creature helped him to do it?
• A giraffe
When is the day shorter in summer or winter?
Equally
Why do feminists hate math?
too many inequalities
How many cool colors are in the rainbow?
3 / blue / dark blue / purple
Harry Potter gives you the task
Read the SMS:
The English say that even after a long practice they can’t pronounce this Russian phrase in a right way. At the best in result they have something that can be translated in Russian as “жёлто-голубой автобус”.
• What is this phrase?
• I love you (Я люблю Вас).
What year did World War I start?
1914
If five cats catch five mice in five minutes, how long does it take for one cat to catch one mouse?
5 min
When you see everything, you don't see it, but when you don't see anything, you see it?
– Darkness
The task from the British Queen Elizabeth II
Give the Russian equivalent to the English proverb:
“An hour in the morning is worth two in the evening ”
Утро вечера мудренее.
One day Earl Zavadovsky found Alexander Pushkin in an expensive restaurant and asked him, “It seems to me that you have a lot of money”. But Pushkin answered that he didn’t live like an earl (with the help of money one got from many villages), but he got regular income* from 36…of what?
• Letters of Russian alphabet
What city is the capital of australia?
Canberra
I guessed a number. I multiplied it by 9. I subtracted 7 from the resulting product. Then I added 3 and divided the amount by 2. I got the number 7.
What number did I think?
2
How many musicians are in the quintet?
5
The English writer Jan Fleming asks you
This character was created by me and played by Sean Connery, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, Daniel Craig in Hollywood films in different periods.
James Bond
In the last years of life Pablo Picasso usually called his wife Jacqueline to come to him using the next phrase “Are you here, Jacqueline?” But when his wife heard this phrase, she often came into another room. And it was to blame.
• What is it?
*to blame - винить
• A parrot
“Mona Lisa” is a well-known picture of Leonardo da Vinci. Ciaconda doesn’t have one detail in her appearance, though every person has it.
Eyebrows
Andrey goes to the skating rink once every three days, Vlad visits the same rink once every four days, and Sergey once every five days. Today is Tuesday, and they met at the rink.
In how many days will the guys meet again at the rink? What day of the week will it be?
60 days, on Saturday;
Every school has its own traditions. It’s a basis of educational work. Mr Popesku (the head teacher of one Romanian school)died 50 years ago. And all these years this school has a teaching aid* and a talisman at the same time.
• What did Mr Popesku leave to his school?
*teaching aid – учебное пособие
His own skeleton
The black box
The question is asked by Prince Charles
In this box there is something that in Russian is called by the name of popular British sport game. What is there in the box?
Гольфы.
John Osborn (a famous playwright) insisted that we couldn’t believe newspapers and it. A group of Swedish philologists decided to find out who used it more often: men or women. They placed it in one of Stockholm’s department store*. During one day it was used by 412 women and 778 men.
• What is it?
• A mirror