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What questions you need to answer to understand how broad your horizons are
Erudition and outlook help to live and navigate in this world. And we invite readers to take a test for real polymaths. Questions from it belong to a variety of areas of knowledge and will make you sweat a lot. But if you correctly answer at least 5-6, then the years behind the school desk were not in vain.
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Erudition and outlook
- On the site of what modern city in the IV century BC was the ancient city of Gorgippia?
(a) Kerch
(b) Anapa
c) Sudak
d) Sochi - We’ve all heard the phrase “happy hours don’t watch.” Which literary hero said it?
(a) Evgeny Onegin
(b) Grigory Pechorin
(c) Sofia Famusova
(d) Sonia Marmeladova - What gemstone in Russia was once called "varenic"?
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amethyst
(b) topaz
(c) chalcedony
(d) carnelian - “I can paint like Raphael, but it will take me a lifetime to learn how to paint.” Continue with Pablo Picasso's quote.
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(a) nature
(b) time
(c)
(d) Salvador Dali - Who organized the first census in Russia?
(a) Petr Petrovich Semenov-Tian-Shansky
(b) Fedor Petrovich Litke
(c) Lev Semenovich Berg - What can be measured with a compass?
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a) radiane
(b) median
azimuth - Which of these birds can't walk?
(a) small spindle
(b) petrel
albatross
(d) haircut - They are the sixth sense without which the other five cannot be fully exploited. What did English writer Somerset Maugham call the sixth sense?
(a) friends
(b) memories
books
(d) money - Torbasa, pim, pussy - this is...
boats
(b) footwear
(c) musical instruments
(d) dishes - Which of these countries has three capitals?
(a) Montenegro
(b) South Africa
c) Brazil
(d) Bolivia
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- Gorgippia was located in the center of the modern city. Anapa. Today, an open-air museum-reserve has been created in its place.
- The expression, which became winged, was uttered by the heroine of the comedy Griboyedov “Woe from wit” Sophia Famusova.
- In Russia. methyst They were called “varenic” and revered as a talisman from intoxication and poison. It was believed that poisoned wine would not cause harm if you put amethyst in it.
- Pablo Picasso talked about baby.
- The first general census took place in Russia in 1897. It was initiated by a traveler and encyclopedist scientist. Petr Petrovich Semenov-Tian Shansky.
- Azimuth The angle between the direction to the north and the direction to a distant object. Magnetic azimuth is determined using a compass.
- Paws. haircut They are so short that they cannot walk on the ground.
- Somerset Maugham talked about money.
- Torbasa, pim, pussy are types of shoes.
- Bolivia and Montenegro each have two capitals. There are three in South Africa! No wonder. There are only official languages in the Republic of South Africa 11! Pretoria is considered the administrative, Cape Town the legislative, and Bloemfontein the judicial center of the country.
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