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First of all, I cut out collections with entertainment questions from Komsomolskaya Pravda for several years in a row. To be honest, it's all in in electronic format on the site kp.ru, but I saved your time, because I took 1-2 good questions from each collection.
Secondly, I wrote out the most successful and understandable questions for a family holiday so that adults, children and teenagers can play on the same team.
Thirdly, I conveniently designed the questions for the quiz with answers so that the presenter simply opened my article on the tablet and held an intellectual party for relatives and friends. Questions are in the left column. On the right are the answers. Easily!

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What occasion is the idea suitable for?

These questions are not childish (), but at the same time quite simple. The quiz can be held at a family holiday when several generations get together (birthday, anniversary, wedding anniversary, New Year, March 8, February 23). Questions are also suitable for an entertaining event in high school.

1. Team tournament

Option 1. Divide your guests into 2 teams. If there are a lot of people, and you get more than 2 teams of 6 people, do three-four-five teams. The fact is that the answers can not be shouted out and voiced after 60 seconds, but written on the forms. This makes it easier to prevent chaos. The facilitator will read out the correct answers when he receives the forms from all the teams.

Each correct answer earns one point.

Option 2. This style of play can sometimes be seen in the beloved “What? Where? When? ”, When it is difficult to determine the leader for the final. One team sits at the game table, the rest stand around. The team plays until the first loss. Gets up and gives way to the other team. At the end, the team that ended up at the table on the final question wins.

Don't forget that players will need a tea break (or a serious gastronomic break), a music or dance break, prizes to reward the best (cheerful, artistic, handsome, small) player.

Which US president wrote his own Sherlock Holmes story?
A. John Kennedy
B. Franklin Roosevelt
W. Ronald Reagan

32-1 US President Franklin Roosevelt was also known as a writer. In 1945, he tried to resurrect the image of the famous literary hero, writing The Baker Street Folio: Five Notes on Sherlock Holmes from Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

What duty was introduced in the 12th century in England in order to force men to go to war?
A. Parasitism tax
B. Tax on cowardice
B. No boots tax

The British had to pay a cowardice tax. They were levied on everyone who did not want to take part in wars for the glory of the king.

Where did the phrase “money smells like?” come from?
A. From bearers for the transport of perfumery
B. From fees for unwashed socks
B. From the toilet tax

The Roman emperor Vespasian imposed a tax on public toilets for citizens. The son did not support the father's idea. Then the monarch brought money to the nose of the offspring and asked if they smelled. This is where the expression came from.

Tourists coming to Mallorca are required to pay a tax…
A. Swimming trunks
B. On palm trees.
B. In the sun

The sun tax must be paid by all tourists who come to Mallorca. The fee is low, only 1 euro per day, the authorities say that the collected money is spent on improving the tourist infrastructure.

We often say the phrase “live and learn”, but we never finish it. So, "live a century - a century learn that ..."

The phrase was uttered by the Roman philosopher Lucius Seneca in the 1st century BC. The wording was deeper: “Live for a century, teach a century how to live”

With the help of emoticons, the names of the films are encrypted here. Let's try to guess!

Here meet the old Soviet movies and world hits, all names are known to every person, you just need to quickly remember. The picture needs to be printed separately for each team and given time to think.

1. "Prisoner of the Caucasus"
2. Runaway Bride
3. Planet of the Apes
4. Silence of the Lambs
5. "Titanic"
6. "Ten Little Indians"
7. "Striped flight"
8. "Italian Robbery"
9. "Operation" Y ", or Shurik's New Adventures"
10. "Mustachioed Nanny"
11. "Love and doves"
12. Slumdog Millionaire

Pushkin's Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish was based on the Brothers Grimm's fairy tale The Fisherman and His Wife. In it, the German "colleague" of our old woman turned into:
A. Pope
B. Queen
B. Director of the fish factory
G. The commander of the divers

The heroine of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "The Fisherman and His Wife" turned into the Pope. And only after the desire to become the Lord God was left with nothing.

Find the error in the excerpt from Krylov's fable: “The Jumping Dragonfly sang red summer; I didn’t have time to look back, as winter rolls into my eyes.

A. Dragonflies can't jump
B. These insects do not make sounds at all
V. There are no winters in those places about which Krylov wrote
D. There is no mistake here, everything is correct

The dragonfly does not make sounds at all, so she could not sing at all. In Krylov's time, "dragonfly" was a generalized name for several species of insects. So in the fable, the “jumping girl” most likely means a grasshopper.

The Oscar-winning Russian cartoon is…
A. Prostokvashino
B. "Winnie the Pooh"
V. "The Old Man and the Sea"
G. "Well, wait a minute!"

In 2000, the Oscar was awarded to the Russian director, animator Alexander Petrov for the best short cartoon of the year, The Old Man and the Sea, based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway.

Which of the famous artists sold only one painting in their life?

A. Vincent Van Gogh.
B. Pierre Auguste Renoir.

The only painting by Van Gogh sold during his lifetime is Red Vineyards at Arles.

One famous writer said that he copied the image of an old woman-harmful from his ex-wife. At the same time, the grandmother turned out to be surprisingly similar to Coco Chanel. On her head she always had a hat with a folding crown, thanks to which she got her nickname.

A. Shapoklyak
B. Little Red Riding Hood
V. Madama Butterfly

The correct answer is Shapoklyak.

What in Russian Empire was the equivalent of money?

A. Skins of fur-bearing animals
B. Cattle
B. Tobacco
G. Women's earrings

The skins of fur-bearing animals were used as money. One skin - one kopeck, a hundred skins - one ruble.

The Indians from the small North American Kwakiutl tribe have a tradition: when they borrow money, they leave it as collateral ...

A. Soul
B. Name
B. mother-in-law's scalp
G. Amulet

A Kwakiutl Indian who borrows money may pledge his name. Until he returns the debt, no one will address him by name.

The height of the Ostankino tower is 540 meters. How many rolls of toilet paper do you need to unwind to get the same number of meters?

This is only 10 rolls (standard roll is 54 meters).

2. Round "Yes-no"

Invite one representative from each team. Let them choose the smartest or the funniest. AT right hand you need to give some object, the demonstration of which means "YES". To the left is a subject for the word "NO". It can be red and blue balls, a spoon and a fork, a glass and a glass, a toy elephant and a doll.

Change the player after every three to five questions.

You read a question, the sound of a bell, or just the caps "bam-mm-ms", the players pick up the desired item. Someone has to keep the sign and count the points.

Bulls react to red.

- Yes
- Not

Bulls practically do not distinguish colors. In a bullfight, they react not to red, but to annoying waving of the cape.

Ostriches hide their heads in the sand from danger.

- Yes
- Not

Ostriches run away when they sense danger. The myth that they burrow arose, perhaps due to the fact that, exhausted from a long chase, they simply drop their heads with their long necks.

Incredible Facts

In fact, there are a lot of secrets in the world, about which modern science practically nothing is known.

Below are the most exciting ones.

1. What is the composition of the universe?

Atoms, as you know, are the most important component of almost everything on our planet. However, they are just a small part of what the Universe consists of.

It's about five percent.

The remaining ninety-five percent is dark energy (dark matter), about which nothing is known. Due to the lack of any information, it was given this name.

2. Why do we dream?

Some believe that dreams are subconscious unfulfilled desires, others say that they are ordinary brain impulses.

3. Why do we sleep?

Since ancient times, scientists have been trying to find an answer to this eternal question. Despite the fact that we spend a third of our lives sleeping, science is still unable to explain the reason for this phenomenon. It is likely that dreams are important for the maintenance of memory or for the development of learning ability.

4. Where does carbon come from on earth?

Ever since the beginning of the industrial revolution, man began to send carbon into the atmosphere, which is hidden in the bowels of the Earth. Where does he come from again?

5. How to get solar energy?

Due to the fact that fossil fuels are an energy source that will eventually come to an end, we will need to extract it from some other places. The most promising candidate for this role is the Sun. The only thing left is to figure out how to do it.

The most difficult questions

6. What happens to prime numbers?

Prime numbers are not as simple as they seem. There is a strangeness in them that mathematicians still cannot understand. Therefore, one of the seven mysteries of the millennium, the Riemann hypothesis, has been keeping the greatest minds awake for several hundred years.

There is a $1 million reward for her proof.

7. How to deal with bacteria?

As antibiotics become widespread and overused, more bacteria adapt to them every day. Science has to look for new ways to fight.

The main hopes are placed on the results of research in the field of DNA, as well as on the search for an answer to this question in deep sea research.

8. Can the computer run even faster?

Today, iPhone owners have a more powerful device than NASA had when they planned their trip to the moon. Is continued productivity growth realistic, or have computers already reached their limit?

The answer to this question largely depends on the correctness of doing incredibly complex calculations.

9. Can we find a cure for cancer?

Unfortunately, most likely, this disease is built into our genes. It is for this reason that the longer we live on earth, the higher the likelihood of getting one of the forms of this terrible disease.

However, looking at the problem from the other side, it is worth noting that about 50 percent of cases of malignant tumors can be prevented.

The main thing is not to smoke, do not abuse alcohol, eat moderately, play sports, lead active image life and avoid excessive exposure to the sun.

10. When will robots become our interlocutors?

Of course, today there are robots that can tell you a few jokes, but we are talking about a full-fledged conversation that takes place between people.

Despite the fact that artificial intelligence is constantly evolving, there is no reliable information about whether robots will ever be independent “personalities”.

11. What is the bottom of the ocean filled with?

At first glance, this question may seem absurd, but in fact the bottom of the ocean is not explored by 95 percent!

Experts say that a person will get to the moon faster and easier than going down to the very deep part ocean.

The hardest questions

12. What is a "black hole"?

Taking into account the fact that both the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics baffled by this question, we can only believe that science will still unite the efforts of all areas that are at least somehow connected with this issue and find the answer.

It is crucial to understand how the strangest parts of our universe exist and function.

13. How long can a person live?

Relatively recently, science and medicine began to treat old age as a disease, and not as an inevitability. But still paramount this case not a question of life expectancy, but how to stay healthy longer?

14. How to solve the problem of overpopulation?

In 35 years, the population of the planet Earth will reach ten billion. To this day, there are no concrete ideas on how to organize the infrastructure that could provide normal life this number of people.

15. Is time travel possible?

Scientists note that according to technical indicators, it is possible to travel into the future. Since during the movement at high speed there is a slowdown in the personal perception of time by an object subjected to such an impact, from the point of view of a person, everything that happens looks like an accelerated movement into the future.

But travel to the past is still impossible.

16. Why does a person yawn?

Despite the fact that both people yawn and most of vertebrates, experts have not yet found an exact explanation for this phenomenon. The most common point of view is the lack of oxygen in the body.

The most difficult questions

17. Why does the placebo effect work?

Today, in relevant circles, they argue not only about the principle of the placebo effect, but also about the advisability of people using this method treatment.

18. Why are nine out of ten people right-handed?

This question has been studied for over 160 years. But why the leading hand of the vast majority of people on the planet is right, we still cannot answer.

19. What makes us human?

If we look at the human genome, we will see that it is 99 percent identical to the monkey. Our brains, however, are larger than those of most individuals in the animal kingdom. It is not the largest, but it has three times more neurons than, for example, a gorilla.

Scientists believe that cooking, as well as skills in making fire, over time made us the owners of a larger brain. But it is possible that our ability to cooperate, as well as trading skills, made this world human, and not belonging to monkeys.

20. How do birds fly to the same place every year?

To date, the best explanation for this phenomenon is the effect magnetic field Earth. This fact has not yet been accepted as the only true one, but so far better explanation was not invented.

21. How does a monarch butterfly understand where to fly?

Monarch butterflies, like birds, travel very long distances every year. The strange thing is that this species of butterflies lives no more than six months, so each individual makes only one flight in its life. How do they know the direction of flight?

22. Why does a giraffe have such a long neck?

There are many explanations for this question, but none of them has been officially confirmed. One theory is that giraffes use their necks to forage for food high up in the trees, where few other animals can reach.

23. What is consciousness?

Science still cannot answer this question. But we know that consciousness is the totality of the work of several parts of the brain, and not some of its separate areas.

It is important to understand which part of the brain is responsible for what and how the circuits of the nervous system work.

Just as important, by integrating and processing a lot of information, and focusing and blocking out the unnecessary, we respond to sensory input so we can discern what is real and what is not.

24. Are we alone in the universe?

Probably no. Astronomers often find places where water worlds may well give impetus to the development of life or have already given it. Moreover, these places are located both in relative proximity to our planet, and at a distance of a large number of light years.

Today, astronomers can scan the atmospheres of alien worlds for oxygen and water. The next few decades will be an exciting period of exploration for potentially habitable planets, which are only Milky Way about 60 billion.

25. Where does gravity come from?

This question has been of interest for centuries. science community. And, most likely, more than any other from this list. Here on the face of the eternal struggle between classical physics and quantum mechanics.

A selection of strange questions that are difficult to answer without thinking carefully! The only thing that unites them is that you have to make a choice everywhere.

What would you prefer:

1. Lose your genitals for life or gain weight forever by 90 kilograms?

2. Have sex with a distant relative/relative in secret or not do it, but would you still always believe that you had sex?

3. If your head was like a tennis ball or like a watermelon?

4. Buy best house in a creepy area or the worst house in the best area?

5. Have no penises or five penises?

Die and save the lives of 10,000 people who will never know that you saved them, or live among 10,000 people who know that you refused to save their lives?

7. Freeze from the cold or burn from the heat?

8. In a time machine, would you always travel only to the past or only to the future?

9. Your superpower would be the ability to fly or be invisible?

10. Eternal love or unlimited bank account?

11. Unlimited power or eternal respect of others?

12. To be an ugly genius or a beautiful dummy?

13. Your thoughts could be read by others at any time when you think, or never wear clothes, but keep your thoughts to yourself?

14. Acne all over the body, but in those places that are covered by clothes, or acne on the face?

Rich and depressed or poor but happy?

16. Be in real world The Walking Dead or Jurassic Park?

17. Die happy within five years or miserable after sixty?

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Will we ever be able to understand the nature of the universe, what makes us human, and why we dream? There are many questions to which we still do not know the answers, but hope to find them soon. Here are some of the most difficult and exciting scientific questions over which the best minds of mankind think.

The most difficult questions

1. What is the Universe made of?

We know about 5 percent of the composition of the universe. That 5 percent is made up of atoms from periodic table that shape everything we see around us. The remaining 95 percent remain a mystery. Over the past 80 years, it has become clear that the rest consists of two dark entities: dark matter (about 25 percent) and dark energy (70 percent). Dark matter is found around galaxies and clusters of galaxies, and acts as an invisible glue that binds them together. We know it exists because it has mass, hence gravity. Dark energy is something more mysterious, a kind of ethereal medium that fills space, expanding it, and causing galaxies to accelerate away from each other. We don't know what is dark energy or dark matter, and astronomers are only getting closer to understanding these invisible "aliens".

2. How did life on Earth begin?

About 4 billion years ago, something originated in " primary broth". It consisted of simple chemicals that met and due to which the first molecules appeared that could reproduce by cell division.
All of us humans are connected to these early biological molecules. But how did the basic chemicals present on Earth spontaneously combine to create life.
How did we get DNA? What did the first cells look like? Scientists still do not know how this happened. Some argue that life originated in hot pools near volcanoes, others that life began with meteorites that fell into the sea.

3. Are we alone in the universe?

Astronomers are carefully searching the Universe for worlds where water could give rise to life, starting from the satellite of Europa and the planet Mars in our solar system to planets that are many light years away.
In 1977, radio telescopes picked up a signal that looked like a possible alien message.
Now astronomers can study the atmosphere of distant worlds in more detail for the presence of oxygen and water. Behind recent times about 60 billion potentially habitable planets have been found in the Milky Way region alone.

4. What makes us human?

The human genome is 99 percent identical to the chimpanzee genome. Our brains are indeed larger than those of most animals, but not the largest. In addition, we have three times more neurons than a gorilla.
Many of the things we thought made us different from animals, including language, the use of tools, and the ability to recognize ourselves in a mirror, are seen in other animals as well.
Perhaps culture and its effect on our genes plays decisive role. Scientists believe that the ability to cook and mastery of fire helped a person develop big brain. Or maybe the ability to cooperate and the skills of trade made us a planet of people, not monkeys?

5. What is consciousness?

So far, it is known that this is due to the work of several areas of the brain, interconnected, and not one part of the brain. If we understand exactly which parts of the brain are involved and how our nervous system, we will understand how consciousness arises, and perhaps this will help us in creating artificial intelligence.
However, even more severe philosophical question is the question why we should be aware.
One suggestion is that by integrating and processing a wealth of information and responding to sensory cues, we can discern what is actually real and what is not, and think through future scenarios that help us adapt and survive.

6. Why do we dream?

We spend a third of our lives sleeping. Given the amount of time it takes us to sleep, it might seem like we all know about it. However, scientists still cannot find an explanation for why we sleep and dream.
Followers of Sigmund Freud believe that dreams are unfulfilled desires, often sexual ones. Others argue that dreams are nothing more than random impulses from the sleeping brain.
Animal studies and advances in brain imaging have shown that sleep plays a role in memory, learning, and emotion.

7. Why does matter exist?

According to the laws of physics, matter should not exist by itself. Every particle of matter, every electron, proton, neutron must have a "twin" - antimatter. Must in in large numbers there are positrons or antielectrons, antiprotons and antineutrons, but this is not so.
If matter and antimatter meet, both disappear because great amount energy. According to the theory, Big Bang created the same amount of both, but something happened that left only matter in the universe.
Of course, nature had its own reasons for creating matter, otherwise we would not exist.
Researchers are analyzing data from experiments at the Large Hadron Collider to understand why there is such an asymmetry of matter and antimatter in our Universe.

8. Are there other universes?

Is our universe the only one? Modern theories and cosmology are increasingly turning to the idea of ​​the existence of other universes, perhaps with other properties that differ from ours.
If there are an infinite number of them in the Multiverse, then any combination of parameters can be reproduced somewhere else, and you can exist in another Universe. But is it? And how do we know that this is so? If we cannot confirm this hypothesis, is it part of science?

9. Can we live forever?

We live in amazing time, as we begin to think of aging as not a fact of life, but a disease that can be cured and possibly prevented, at least for a long time.
Our knowledge of what causes aging and why some animals live longer than others is constantly expanding. Data on DNA damage, metabolism, reproductive health helps us get a better picture and possibly create drugs.
But more important issue is not how long we will live, but how long we will live well. And since many diseases, including diabetes and cancer, are more often diseases of aging, treating aging can be key.

10. Is time travel possible?

Traveling through space is doable, but is it possible to travel through time?
When it comes to traveling to the past, the laws of physics prevent it, and it will forever remain in our memory.
However, the road to the future is more open for us. According to special theory Einstein's relativity, for astronauts at the International space station time passes more slowly. At the speed of rotation of the ISS, this effect is practically not noticeable, but if you increase the speed to the speed of light, people can fly thousands of years ahead.
However, we will not be able to go back in time and tell others about what we have seen.

1. Does a person experience pain when his head is cut off?
Answer: yes, it does. As a result medical research conducted in 1983, it was concluded that no matter how quickly the execution is carried out, several seconds of pain are inevitable when a person loses his head. Even when using the guillotine, which is considered one of the most “humane” means of decapitation, severe pain cannot be avoided, which will last at least 2 to 3 seconds.

2. Why are pineapples so prickly?
prickly outer side pineapple seems to be contrary to the very purpose of the existence of this fruit: how can animals get to the sweet pulp that is inside? The fact is that those pineapples that are sold in stores are actually still quite unripe. Animals living in the forests eat pineapples after they are ripe. A ripe pineapple becomes soft, it is already easy to open it, and then the animals eat it. The prickly outer side is found on the fruits of many plants to protect the fruits until they are fully ripe.

3. What are the dimensions of a wormhole?
The mole feeds on worms and other reptiles that enter its underworld. The size of a wormhole depends on how rich in living creatures the land in which the mole lives. Of course, the hole of a mole living under a lush meadow will be much smaller than the hole that a mole will dig that lives in acidic soil. In total, an adult mole can dig a hole, the area of ​​\u200b\u200bwhich will be more than 7 thousand square meters by building a multi-level network of tunnels that can have up to 6 levels. The mole digs a hole deep, with various passages and "pantries" in which it stores its prey.
4. If you are wearing black pants or a skirt, does it make your butt look smaller?
Answer: yes, it is. The human eye perceives light colors better, so the outlines of body parts in dark clothes appear smaller in size. The problem is that it only works when you're looking at the person from behind. When you look at him from the side, the butt shows its true size.

5. Why does nettle sting so painfully?
Stinging nettle causes such a strong sensation of discomfort when touched on the skin because this plant releases a mixture of 3 chemicals when the delicate hairs on its leaves break down on contact with human skin. Against the burn with these acidic chemicals, which are part of the nettle, it is customary to use such a tool as applying a sorrel leaf to the affected area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe skin, which releases alkali when it is rubbed against the skin. The effectiveness of this remedy is questionable, some believe that the pain is actually reduced because the cool sorrel leaf cools the skin.

7. Why, if you smear a cut apple with lemon juice, does it not darken?
The answer to this question lies in cell structure apples. When the knife cuts through the peel, the cells of the apple are destroyed, and the air oxidizes the enzymes of this fruit. The process by which an apple acquires Brown color, aims to aid the cell healing process and also make the apple unattractive to animals that would want to eat it. And citric acid, which is contained in a lemon, slows down this process of changing the color of an apple cut.

8. How fat does a person need to get to be bulletproof?
To do this, you would have to become terribly fat. A bullet of the most common caliber - 9 mm - is capable of penetrating 60 cm of human flesh up to full stop. In addition, even if the bullet were stuck in body fat, the bullet strike would cause serious damage. internal organs, and a person could die from vascular thrombosis.

9. What animals eat wasps?
Wasps are eaten by birds, skunks, bears, weasels, rats and mice. Wasps and bees are eaten by birds of 133 species, which avoid the bites of these insects by crushing them on the trunk or branches of trees. Badgers dig up wasp nests and eat their contents for food, despite the obvious displeasure and resistance of the inhabitants of the nests. Wasps are also eaten by dragonflies, frogs, moths and beetles. The larvae of some species of wasps taste good when fried in oil.

10. Why didn't nature invent the wheel?
Nature invented it, it's just that it was unnoticed until recently. Microorganisms use round discs for locomotion. Bacteria move with the help of "wheels" - they move by attaching to the "wheel" in cell membrane. This wheel is spinning great speed(up to 100 revolutions per second) and generates electricity that charges the proteins attached to the cell membrane.