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Who are "porpoises"?
Odontoceti
What science fiction writer came up with the three laws of robotics?
Isaac Asimov
What sport glorified the name of Sergey Bubka?
pole vault
What musical instrument glorified Vera Dulova?
harp
Which country belongs to the island of Madeira, which gave the name to the strong wine of Madeira?
Portugal
What an animal (and only it!) produces the ambergris?
Physeter macrocephalus
Where is the Rockefeller Plateau?
Antarctica
Who was the famous Greek Aristotle, who lived in the IV century BC?
philosopher
Who is the author of the lines: "White sail lonely..."?
Mikhail Lermontov
Which city is the capital of the Republic of Buryatia?
Ulan-Ude
Where is the Iberian Peninsula located?
Europe
Where is the Plesetsk cosmodrome located?
Arkhangelsk Oblast
Which city is the capital of Chuvashia?
Cheboksary
What was Munchausen's title?
baron
What science studies the atmosphere and its composition?
meteorology, geophysics
What metal is necessarily present in the amalgam?
mercury
The country in which the population was horrified by the TONTON-makuty?
Haiti
What was the name of the capital of the Aztec state?
Tenochtitlan
In which city is the airport named after John Lennon
Liverpool
Who is credited with discovering the path of human evolution?
Charles Darwin, Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
Which of the characters in Tolstoy's novel War and peace is Natasha Rostova's husband?
Pierre Bezukhov
Who created the site in Contact?
Pavel Valeryevich Durov
In which track and field discipline was Bob Beamon's 1968 Olympic record broken only in 1991
long jump
What river is the city of Saratov on?
Volga
In what field of science did Sofia Kovalevskaya's outstanding abilities manifest themselves?
mathematics, mathematical analysis, mechanics, differential calculus, Partial Differential Equations
Who wrote the text of the Russian anthem "God save the Tsar"?
Vasily Zhukovsky
Which country does the Shantar Islands belong to?
Russia
Which of the great Renaissance artists painted the Sistine chapel of the Vatican?
Michelangelo
What river is Tver on?
Volga
What is the official language of Ethiopia?
Amharic
Which city is the administrative center (capital) of the state of Texas?
Austin
Who killed Pyotr Stolypin?
Dmitry Bogrov
One of the fighters for civil rights belongs to the phrase "I Have a dream..."?
Martin Luther King Jr.
Which city is the capital of the Swiss Confederation?
Bern
In which constellation is the brightest star called VEGA?
Lyra
Who won the Miss World pageant in 1994?
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
In what city did the collaborationist Petain government settle during the occupation of France by German troops?
Vichy
Who created the Leicester code, a notebook of scientific papers that bill gates purchased for $ 30 million?
Leonardo da Vinci
What type of ship was the Korean that fought bravely with the Varangian against the Japanese squadron?
gunboat
What are the names of Armenian banknotes?
Armenian dram
What unit in the SI system is named after the inventor Nikola Tesla?
magnetic flux density
Who wrote the fairy tale "the Sleeping Princess"?
Vasily Zhukovsky
What country is the city of Antwerp located in?
Belgium
In which country did Sirimavo Bandaranaike become the first female Prime Minister in 1960?
Sri Lanka
In what city was born the famous actress Faina Ranevskaya?
Taganrog
In what city was the prophet Muhammad (Mohammed) born?
Mecca
What style did the architect Rastrelli work in?
Baroque
What was the name of don Quixote's horse?
Rocinante
Where does the Royal house of Bernadotte rule?
Sweden
On which river is the famous Victoria falls located?
Zambezi River
In what region of Russia is the ancient city of Sarapul located?
Udmurt Republic
Which city is the capital of the state of Alaska?
Juneau
In some of the countries there are the resorts Sunny Day and Sunny Beach?
Bulgaria
Which country's son was Edmund Hillary, the first to conquer Everest with Sherpa N. Tenzing?
New Zealand
What island is the Fujiyama volcano located on?
Honshu
What is the playing role of the football player Igor Akinfeev?
goalkeeper
In which city the action is the story of Mark TWAIN's "the Prince and the pauper"?
London
In which city is the Prado Museum located?
Madrid
Where is Tantalum cave?
Austria
Which band recorded the musical album "Actress Spring"?
DDT
Who was formulated the law that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction?
Isaac Newton
Which composer wrote the first Soviet rock Opera "Orpheus and Eurydice"?
Alexander Zhurbin
What was the name of Rembrandt's wife?
Saskia van Uylenburgh
Which artist was criticized by French high society for the scandalous "Portrait of Madame X"?
John Singer Sargent
In what theater does O. Basilashvili play?
Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater
In what sea is the Yamal Peninsula located?
Kara Sea
Who wrote the music for the song "Moscow nights"?
Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi
Russian Russian seasons, which made Russian ballet famous at the beginning of the XX century, were organized by who?
Sergei Diaghilev, Léon Bakst, Alexandre Benois
What country does the island of Elba belong to-the place of Napoleon's exile?
Italy
What country is Banff national Park located in?
Canada
Who was Ivan the terrible's mother?
Elena Glinskaya
What is the genre of Pushkin's "captain's daughter"?
historical novel, short novel
What kind of sport was the famous tenor Zurab Sotkilava professionally engaged in?
association football
What city did the architect Oscar Niemeyer build "from scratch"?
Brasília
Which country belongs to the Bocas del Toro archipelago, where the last hero is being filmed?
Panama
Which mountain is the highest point of the Caucasus?
Mount Elbrus
Who is the author of the musical fantasy "animal Carnival"?
Camille Saint-Saëns
In which country has the leftist terrorist organization Sendero Luminoso been rampaging for many years?
Peru
In which country does the Orange river flow?
South Africa, Lesotho, Namibia
Which singer married the captain of the football team "Zenit" Vladislav Radimov?
Tatiana Bulanova
In what country is the temple complex Angkorwat?
Cambodia
Which country does the .co top-level domain belong to?
Colombia
Who is the author of the Chevalier de Saint-Hermine?
Alexandre Dumas
In which Italian city is the Uffizi art gallery located?
Florence
Who was James bond by profession, whose name was given to the hero of a series of books by Ian Lancaster Fleming?
ornithology
In which Museum of the world is Vincent van Gogh's painting "Red vineyards in Arles"?
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
What country was the discoverer of penicillin, Alexander Fleming, a citizen of?
United Kingdom
Who of the domestic Directors who made films based on the novels of A. Dumas, put the film "Prisoner of the castle If"?
Georgi Yungvald-Khilkevich
Who wrote the Opera Eugene Onegin?
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Which city is the center of the Ural Federal district?
Yekaterinburg
Which city is the capital of Australia?
Canberra
Where is one of the best preserved fossil formations of the Berges-shale?
Canada
Which country's cinematographers made the famous TV series "Bet more than life"?
Poland, Polish People's Republic
Who invented the phonograph, a device for recording and reproducing voice?
Thomas Edison
Which of the cosmonauts participated in the joint Soyuz - Apollo flight with the United States?
Alexey Leonov, Thomas P. Stafford, Deke Slayton, Valeri Kubasov, Vance D. Brand
Who was the famous physicist Niels Bohr in his football role?
goalkeeper
What river flows through the Grand Canyon in the United States?
Colorado River
Which team was the last champion of the USSR on football?
PFC CSKA Moscow
Which city is the capital of Kiribati?
South Tarawa
Which stadium hosted the 1966 FIFA world Cup final?
Wembley Stadium