Where from?
Chocolate
Camels
China
1860s
100

"Where from?" His wife asked about the origin of the money and the gun. He was drunk, but answered briefly: "From there."

Semyon Semyonovich Gorbunkov

100

During his memorable streak of 22 victories in Jeopardy (Svoya Igra), he ate about two kilograms of chocolate.

Anatoly Alexandrovich Wasserman

100

The unusual rocks in Colorado Springs remind both locals and tourists of camels doing this. Hence the name. 

"Kissing Camels"

100

In 1982, China's population surpassed this threshold.

One billion people

100

This war (1861–1865) was one of the first industrial wars, employing advanced technologies such as steel warships and machine guns.

The American Civil War

200

This first lady comes from the Yugoslav town of Novo Mesto. She speaks fluent Slovenian and Serbo-Croatian.

Melania Trump

200

When filming the black-and-white movie "Psycho," Alfred Hitchcock used chocolate syrup for this purpose.

Blood

200

In the United Arab Emirates, they sell this camel milk delicacy in every flavor—date, saffron, strawberry…

Ice cream

200

The Shanghai Circuit has hosted 18 of the 1,149 races in the history of the event.

Formula 1

200

On January 5, Kilmarnock Football Club was founded—one of the oldest Scottish teams in the sport.

Soccer / Football

300

After a debate between historians Pogodin and Kostomarov about the origins of Rus', Prince Vyazemsky concluded: "Before, we didn't know where we were going, but now..." Finish the sentence

...we don't know where we came from.

300

The Ministry of Plenty promised they wouldn't reduce the chocolate ration, but they didn't keep their promise, so Winston was forced to edit an old copy of The Times. Name the novel.

"1984"

300

The painting "Tatar Camel Driver," like many other works by this self-taught artist, is housed in the State Museum of Art in Georgia. 

Niko Pirosmani (Pirosmanashvili)

300

The characters for writing THEM, invented in China over 3,000 years ago, are still used today.

Numbers

300

The first transcontinental railroad opened on May 10 in this country.

The USA

400

Gaius Julius Caesar found no difficulty in finding a pretext for a campaign in this country: "In all our wars with Gaul, reinforcements were sent from there to our enemies."

Britain

400

To make this chocolate, the sweet mass is saturated with carbon dioxide and placed in a vacuum chamber.

Aerated/Porous Chocolate

400

Riding on his camel, Ostap Bender threatened, "If we don't get decent food in two days, I'll rebel up some tribes." He compared himself to this colonel.

Lawrence of Arabia

400

The head of state of China is usually called the president in English, but that's precisely what he's called in Russian.

A Chairman (председатель)

400

She was born on February 26, 1869, and was a year older than her husband. 

Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya

500

There is no consensus on which place should be considered the birthplace of Santa Claus: Lapland or the immediate vicinity of the North Pole. However, his prototype, Christian Greek bishop Saint Nicholas, the patron saint of children, definitely comes from this place.

Lycia / from the maritime city of Patara in Anatolia (in modern-day Antalya Province, Turkey)

500

Eddie Murphy played the frontman of the band Sexual Chocolate in this film. 

Coming to America
500

There are currently only two species of camel in the world: the one-humped (dromedary) and the two-humped (Bactrian). Almost all modern camels are domesticated. Wild camels, or khaptagai, live in THESE countries and are listed on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species and are endangered.

Mongolia and China

500

The world's largest casino operates not in Las Vegas, but in this special administrative region of China.

Macau

500

On November 17, it was ceremoniously inaugurated. The celebration cost Ismail Pasha 28 million gold francs.

Suez Canal