Check yourself: how many questions can you answer ChGK?

Check yourself: how many questions can you answer ChGK?



For starters: in 1979, even before his company entered the stock exchange, Steve Jobs conducted tests that were not directly related to the company's products. And what kind of tests?

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On August 29th, ManyChat hosted an intelligent IT evening, “What?” Where? When?". The game was attended by teams from Badoo, Deutsche Bank, HeadHunter, ManyChat, Raiffeisen bank, Tutu.ru, Tinkoff and as many as three teams from Yandex, including Yandex.Taxi and Yandex.Food. The main game was held in 2 rounds on 12 questions. The host read the question, and the team was given a minute to find the correct version, then the host voiced the correct answer. After the first 12 questions (round 1), we announced a short break, during which the team's “Own Game” was held.

Game results

Serious passion flared up during the game, and the last 6 questions turned out to be decisive - it was they who determined the winner. As a result, the 3rd place went to the Yandex national team, which answered 17 of 24 questions.







The Raiffeisenbank team was able to take one more question and earned 18 points. This helped the team to take second place in our IT competition.







The absolute winner was the team from Deutsche Bank, which found the right answers to 20 questions. And in the second round the guys could not be stopped, they took 11 of 12 possible questions.







Anyone could see how the game went online. In addition to standard webcasting (which the guys from the Typical Programmer helped us to do), a broadcast was organized with a 360-degree viewing mode .

Ready to test yourself? Questions to you!

1. [Black box]

In an interview, Sergey Shipov mentioned extreme people who, in the framework of the fight against cheating, suggested equipping chess players with what lies in the black box.

Question: What is in the black box?





2. In 1979, even before his company entered the stock exchange, Steve Jobs conducted tests that were not directly related to the company's products.

Question: And which tests?







3. Borislav Kozlovsky notes that the organizers in 2011 made a risky move by inviting HIS. Now he works in the field of healthcare.

Question: Name it.





4. Some of you will be able to get IT, say, in April 2020. Until recently, it was believed that the first to accidentally find his twelve-year-old boy from Salt Lake City during a game of Adventure about 40 years ago.

Question: Name it.





5. The name of the worm viruses that can infect all the machines available on the network in a quarter of an hour includes the name of the artist.

Question: Name this artist





6. Initially, it was supposed to protect from a kind of burn to which areas with static elements were exposed. Now it performs mainly decorative functions.

Question: Call HIM.





7. Engineer Mikhail Ryzhka long stallions of callistemon reminded him. In the word “IT”, all vowels are the same.







Question: Call HIM.





8. In 2012, a programmer from Google Tim Bray suggested introducing a new HTTP status - a code for pages on the Internet that public services are forbidden to access.

Question: Write the number of this HTTP status.





9. At first, Alfred Fielding and Mark Chavan proposed using their invention as exotic wallpaper, then to cover greenhouses, but success came when IBM made sure that it was better than newspapers. The company they created is called "Sealed ...". What?





10. According to one of the authors writing in the Hacker magazine, this story, which took place in the Middle East, is an undoubted example of how hackers, introducing incompatible information transfer protocols into practice, made impossible the functioning of a huge corporate structure.

Question: What is its main, and not completed, task.





11. The action of one humorous video takes place in Scotland. The hero of the video is going to get married. His parents are horrified to learn that the bride is related to the Buchanans, Innes and Maktavishami.

Question: Write the name of the hero.





12. On the logo of the educational programming language Kenya you can see the word "Kenya" and several of them. A program written in this language is automatically translated into Java code.

Question: Name THEM.

Second round

13. DNA molecules are responsible for the synthesis of proteins, but in order to reproduce, they themselves need many specialized proteins. Arguing about this, the geneticist Eugene Kunin mentions HIS and HER.

Question: Name both HIS and HER.



14. According to one not-so-believable version, Michael worked late on the layout design. And at night there was a small earthquake, slightly affecting the second. Michael liked it, and he decided to leave it that way.

Question: Write Michael's short last name.





15. Because of HIM, the hare became longer in danger, and transport problems arose in Alaska.



Question: Call HIM in two words.





16. Paleontologists find it difficult to work in South Africa, since there is no THEM capable of “preserving" the remains of primitive people.

Question: What is the name of THEM whose activity can be seen in the picture in the State Russian Museum?





17. In his book, a famous scientist compared HER with a waterfall, on the edge of which you can hold for some time, if you row in the opposite direction with all your might.

Question: Call her.





18. Diene synthesis, with the help of which scientists have received many important medications, is figuratively called "IM organic chemistry."

Question: Who appears with BAT in the title of a famous work?





19. The columnist of the Chicago Tribune, Julia Keller, recalls the world before Harry Potter, when the word "Potter" in children's literature was unambiguously recognized as the name of the English writer Beatrice Potter, and the initials JK did not refer to Joan Kathleen Rowling, but to her. The article also mentions one American company. Which one?





20. The heroes of one comic book who fell into the post-apocalyptic world rejoice when they decide that at least the crickets did survive. This, however, turns out to be a mistake, the fault of which he became.

Question: Name it.





21. A new subject for OgIlvy’s new managers at the workplace is where they can eventually find a note: “By hiring people who are equal or less capable, we are turning into a company of dwarfs. By hiring people stronger, smarter and more capable of ourselves, we are becoming a company of giants. ”

Question: Name this item.





22. The character of Ernest Klein sees a woman dressed in the fashion of the 80s of the twentieth century. Describing her hairstyle, the character jokingly suggests that HE was badly hurt.

Question: What are the names of the places where HE suffered especially badly?





23. At the beginning of a Hollywood movie, the main character drives off the road in a car, falls into the water and faints. After a couple of minutes, lightning hits the car. At that moment, the voiceover mentions the MOT that was first successfully applied in 1956.

Question: Call IT.





24. Despite scientific and technological progress, they still use it. Now most often, oceanologists and cartographers resort to her help.

Question: Which book begins with an example of its successful use?

About future events

We had to close the registration for the first game 24 hours after the announcement. We realized that to “What? Where? When? ”The IT community has a lot of interest. And most importantly, we ourselves really enjoyed holding this event. Therefore, we decided to make a whole autumn IT season: two qualifying rounds and a Christmas final.



We plan to hold the qualifying games on October 3 and November 8 , and the final battle will take place in December. Soon we will announce the registration, and we will definitely share all the details in our blog and social networks ( Vk , Facebook ). So start building a team and get ready to compete in logic and quick wits!