What? Where? When?
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"What? Where? When?" - is an intellectual gaming subculture In the world of the spoken Russian countries (the territory of ex-USSR plus Israel).
One game of "WWW" (russian "ЧГК") goes in the follow way:
Usually in some auditory the 6-players commands sit at the tables (1 command - 1 table).
The master reads 36 questions. For answer commands have right 1 minute and write answer on a piece of paper. The master's assistent after one minute runs around all tables and gets pieces of paper from each command.
There are breaks for some minutes after 12 and 24 questions.
After the last questions master announces points for every command and celebrates the champions.
What questions are in the game? There are not ordinary quiz questions. Usually there are very smart and sly riddles.
For example,
Question: Fernand Braudel names "core of Europe" with the space, colonized by Rome Empire. Newer parts, which civilization arrived at any times, historian compares with THEM. Name THEM by 2 words.
Answer: tree rings
Comment: By Brodel's words, european civilization incremented like a tree, joining new terrotories as well as if tree rings.
It is a very hard question, but skilled commands on 1 minute spin the facts, allusions, special hints in the questions, talking between each other, and often guess right question.
The subculture "WWW" origins from the popular russian tv show "What? Where? When?", displayed since 1975.
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