How Well Do You Know Uzbekistan?
The Afrosiyob train takes its name from what historical place?
The ancient settlement of Afrosiyob at Samarkand.
What two English words inspired the letters QR in “QR code”?
Quick Response.
Which saves more money on the same item: one 40% discount, or two successive 20% discounts?
One 40% discount. Two successive 20% discounts save 36%.
Part of a tree. A local bank office. A division of a subject.
Branch: tree branch, bank branch, branch of science.
How many strings does a traditional Uzbek dutar have?
two.
Can a rainbow form a complete circle? If yes, why? If no, why not?
Yes. The ground normally blocks the lower part; an elevated viewpoint can reveal more, sometimes the entire circle.
Seventeen teams enter a knockout tournament. Every match eliminates one team. There are no third-place matches. How many matches are needed to produce one champion?
16 matches.
What cover a fish. What you stand on to check your weight. What a pianist practises.
Scales: fish scales, weighing scales, musical scales.
Which town in Uzbekistan is famous for a ship graveyard on a former seabed?
Mo‘ynoq.
Bluetooth connects devices. Its name, however, comes from something else. What is that?
A king—Harald “Bluetooth” of Denmark.
Ten friends each clink their piyola with every other friend’s exactly once. How many clinks happen altogether?
45:10*9/2
A persuasive sales presentation. How high or low a sound is. A football field in British English.
Pitch: sales pitch, musical pitch, football pitch.
Only Uzbekistan and Liechtenstein have this geographical status relating to access to the ocean. What is it?
Doubly landlocked: all their neighbouring countries are also landlocked.
A modern Olympic gold medal is made mostly of which metal?
Silver.
A drawer contains ten red, ten blue, and ten green socks. Without looking, how many socks must you take to guarantee at least four of the same colour?
10 socks.
A flow of water. A flow of electric charge. An adjective meaning “of the present time.”
Current: ocean current, electric current, current events.
What Uzbek performance tradition turns a conversation into a competition of quick, witty replies?
Askiya.
What was the tiny pocket above the main front pocket of Levi’s jeans originally designed to hold?
A pocket watch.
You have a round pizza. You make 4 straight cuts, each running all the way across from one edge to the other. Cuts may cross each other, but you can't move any pieces between cuts. What is the greatest number of pieces you can make?
11 pieces.
A liquid used as a soup base. Goods a shop has available. Shares in a company.
Stock: chicken stock, shop stock, company stock.