Facts about the program “What? Where? When?" (9 photos). Crystal Owl and its history History of the game by years

Crystal Owl - a prize that is awarded to the best participant in the television game “What? Where? When?". This award can be received by both one of the experts and the viewer.

Brief information

The Crystal Owl has been awarded since 1984. The first awards, which were awarded to the best author of the question and an expert, were issued in the city of Gus-Khrustalny. Since 1985, the prize has been produced by the Lviv Ceramics and Sculpture Factory. V. V. Drachuk acted as a glass artist. Prior to 1990, the award was presented once a year based on the results of the season.

Rules

In 1991-2000 the crystal owl was played twice a year. It was in the finals of the winter and summer series of games. When the club's anniversary was celebrated in 2000, the rules were special. The crystal owl was awarded based on the results of each game. Since 2001, the prize has been awarded at the final of each of the series (i.e. winter, autumn, summer and spring). Since 2002, the place of the main award has been taken by the "Diamond Owl". Here are some interesting facts. The first winners of the prize were - a member of the team of experts Andrei Kamorin, as well as Alexander Zlobin - a viewer from the city of Dubno. At an early stage in the life of the club, instead of a statuette, the "Owl Badge" was awarded. Record number of awards (six) received His both daughters are also awarded this prize. Fedor Dvinyatin received 4 owls. Andrey Kozlov, Boris Burda and Maxim Potashev won three awards each. The Bulgarian "Knowing Club" has a similar prize. Only it is called "Porcelain snail" there. It is the snail that Bulgarians consider the most intelligent animal. In a series of games in 1987, this prize was awarded to a representative of the Soviet TV club named Oleg Dolgov.

Connoisseurs-owners

From 1984 to 1991, the winners of the prize were Nurali Latypov (journalist, scientific and political consultant), Marina Govorushkina, Oleg Dolgov, Neiko Neikov, Nikita Shangin, Vladislav Petrushko, Alexander Druz, Fyodor Dvinyatin, Vladimir Molchanov. In 1992 Andrey Kozlov and Alexander Druz were awarded. In 1993, Lyudmila Gerasimova received the statuette. Alexey Blinov became the winner of the same year. In 1994 to 1997, the prize was given to Fedor Dvinyatin, Andrey Rubin, Druz, Maxim Potashev. The owner of the crystal owl in 1998 in the winter series of games is Georgy Zharkov, in the summer - In 1999, the prize was not awarded. Since 2000, Alexander Druz, Boris Burda, Byalko, Alla Damsker, Fedor Dvinyatin, Dmitry Eremin, Maxim Potashev, Sergey Tsarkov, Viktor Sidnev, Rovshan Askerov, Konovalenko, Mikhail Moon, Valentina Golubeva, Ales Mukhin, Asya Shavinskaya , Ilya Novikov, Andrei Bychutkin, Alexei Kapustin, Kozlov, Igor Kondratyuk, Vladimir Molchanov, Nikolai Silantiev, Balash Kasumov, Vladimir Antokhin, Yulia Lazareva, Mikhail Skipsky, Grigory Alkhazov, Vladimir Stepanov, Gunel Babaeva, Ilya Novikov, Boris Levin.

Now you know what a crystal owl is. A photo of the prize is attached to this material. It remains to be added that the television intellectual game “What? Where? When?" is a club in which a team of 6 members, called "experts", is in search of the correct answer to any question asked by viewers, using brainstorming for one minute.

On September 4, 1975, the game What? Where? When?". True, she recorded in the apartments of two Moscow families of players - the Kuznetsovs and the Ivanovs, who at first were called connoisseurs, and not members of the What? Where? When?".

The name of Boris Kryuk, who became the new host, producer and director of the game, was also hidden for a long time, and his voice was subjected to computer processing.

Beginning in 1979, musical pauses began to be practiced in the program, first in recordings, artists, including foreign performers, began to appear in 1982. At first, the game was limited to airtime, namely, since 1982, in order to win the game, you already need to correctly answer 6 questions.

Recordings of the TV show “What? Where? When?" since 1990 they have been held in the Neskuchny Garden, in a hunting lodge built in the middle of the 18th century in the estate of Prince Nikita Yuryevich Trubetskoy.
A diamond owl made of crystal and silver weighing about 8 kg since 2002 has become the prize of the TV show “What? Where? When? ”, which is awarded to the best connoisseur or viewer.
The prize is adorned with 70 rubies.

Money in the transfer began to be used as winnings since 1991, because in Soviet times, as a rule, money was not played. Prizes were given to the winners in books.

Vladimir Yakovlevich Voroshilov directed the popular game until December 30, 2000, and in March 2001 he died. On the grave of the famous TV presenter in 2003, according to the project of a long-term participant in the game, Nikita Shangin, a monument was erected in the form of a "Black Box".

The talisman of the program owl Fomka for the first time "took part" in the program in 1977. From an ordinary children's toy store, the famous spinning top produced by the Krasny Proletarian factory came to the program, with the help of which the question for each round is determined. V. Voroshilov bought it.

In the section on the question How much does a diamond owl, a crystal owl and a diamond star cost in What? Where? When? given by the author skinny the best answer is The owl is a symbol of wisdom and it is no coincidence that it became the symbol of the game.
Sign of an owl" - the first honorary award of the club "What? Where? When? ".
The prize was awarded in 1981 to the best connoisseur of the game.
The first owner of the "Sign of the Owl" - Alexander Byalko. TV viewers and club experts named him the best player in the 1980 final.
The Crystal Owl Prize was established in 1984.
From 1984 to 1990, the prize was awarded once a year to the best player of the year in the TV viewers team and in the connoisseurs team.
From 1991 to 2000, the prize was awarded twice a year - in the finals of the summer and winter series.
An exception was the anniversary games of 2000, when the "Crystal Owl" was awarded to the best connoisseur of each game in the series.
Since 2001, the "Crystal Owl" has been awarded 4 times a year in the final game of the spring, summer, autumn or winter series. The prize is given to the best player of the winning team - an expert or a viewer.
The first two "Crystal Owls" in 1984 were made at a glass factory in the city of Gus-Khrustalny, Vladimir Region.
Since 1985, the Crystal Owl prize has been made at the Lviv Experimental Ceramics and Sculpture Factory (free glass, handmade, glass artist V. V. Drachuk).
The first connoisseur-owner of the "Crystal Owl" - Nurali Latypov.
The prize was presented at the game on December 29, 1984.
Diamond Owl Awarded since 2002.
Grand Prize of the Year.
Awarded in the final game of the year to the best player on the winning team.
"Diamond Owl" is made of silver and crystal using the "Diamond Edge" technology (handmade). 70 rubies were used to decorate the prize. The weight of the Diamond Owl is over 8 kg.

Alexander Byalko I have been in an elite club since 1979. A nuclear physicist by training. His first wife Elena worked for more than 30 years in "What? Where? When?", Two children were born in the marriage. But a couple of years ago, 62-year-old Alexander left the family and married a 26-year-old beauty from Kyrgyzstan named Agatha.

Nurali Latypov (61 years old) in the program since the 1980s, the owner of the first Crystal Owl. Neurophysiologist by education, candidate of philosophical sciences. I got into the club by accident. He collaborated with the program "Merry Fellows" as a cartoonist and once in the bar of the television center he saw the broadcast of the game "What? Where? When?". She fascinated him so much that he rushed off to personally congratulate the connoisseurs immediately after the victory. On the same evening he was invited to become one of the participants. Now he is in charge of the Laboratory of Nonlinear Solutions. Winner of the literary award "Golden Calf".

Alexander Druz (60 years old) first appeared on the air in 1981. Since then, he has been playing almost without a break, which is a record. He is an engineer by education, was engaged in the construction business, taught at school, and was the head of television programs for the St. Petersburg channel STO. Recently, according to Alexander, he retired. Both daughters of the connoisseur, Inna and Marina (see photo), successfully played "What? Where? When?".

Alexey Blinov first appeared in the game in 1991. Then he worked as a master at the Leningrad knitwear association. Now he is the PR director of the Zenit football club, for which he has been a fan for many years.

Georgy Zharkov I have been playing for ChGK since 1994. Historian by education, candidate of sciences. Unfortunately, his name was most often remembered in connection with scandals. In 2007, he was sentenced to 4.5 years of probation. According to the investigation, Zharkov met a 19-year-old student, brought him to his home and persuaded him to have sex. The next day, the guy escaped from his apartment by rappelling out of the window. In 2009, the criminal record was removed from the connoisseur.

diamond owl - the main prize "What? Where? When?" is awarded in the final of the year to the best player of the winning team (either an expert or a viewer). Made of silver, crystal and 70 rubies. Weight - more than 8 kg.

Awarded since 2002. During this time, 6 owls were received by viewers and 7 by experts: Asya Shavinskaya, Boris Burda, Andrey Kozlov, Balash Kasumov, Alexander Druz, Boris Levin and Ilya Novikov (pictured).

BY THE WAY

Lawyer of Nadezhda Savchenko - the owner of the Diamond Owl

33-year-old Ilya Novikov is the brightest star of "What? Where? When" of the last decade. He got into the elite club already at the age of 20, the owner of two Crystal Owls and one Diamond. However, few people know that Novikov currently has the status of a lawyer. Among his clients is Ukrainian servicewoman Nadezhda Savchenko, who is on trial in Russia.

Famous Ukrainian connoisseurs:

Igor Kondratyuk (53 years old) - member of the club "What? Where? When?" since 1985, owner of the Crystal Owl. He began his television career at Ostankino - as an assistant to host Boris Kryuk in the show "Love at First Sight" and in the "Brain Ring". Since 1992 he has been working on Ukrainian TV: author, editor, host of many TV projects. Engaged in producing artists. Married, three children.

Boris Burda in "What? Where? When?" since 1990. On Ukrainian television, he became famous as the host of popular cooking shows - his first wife, a poetess, did not know how to cook, so Boris masterfully mastered this art. He has written dozens of cookbooks. In addition, Burda writes songs in the bard style and performs with them at festivals.

At 65, the Odessa citizen is the "oldest" player of the "What? Where? When?" club.

Alexey Kapustin (57 years old) has been playing in an elite club since 1990 in the team of Andrey Kozlov. It ranks fourth in terms of the number of games played - 45 (only Friends, Potashev and Dvinyatin have more), the owner of the Crystal Owl-2008. Chemist, professor, doctor of sciences. Head of the department at the Azov State Technical University (Mariupol). One of his students won the world chemistry olympiad. Married, has children. He spends all his free time at the dacha, where he grows grapes and giant puffball mushrooms.

CHECK YOURSELF!

Questions of the year

Question: Connoisseurs are given reproductions of two paintings by the artist Fyodor Reshetnikov: "Again a deuce" and "Arrived on vacation." One of the paintings was painted in 1948, the other in 1952. Which one came first?

Answer: The painting "Arrived for the Holidays" was painted earlier, in 1948. It is she who hangs on the wall in the house of a two-man boy from the painting "Again the deuce."

Question: “If a woman married a second time and has children from her first marriage, and her new husband also has children from her first marriage, then the woman, of course, loves her children more. And she hates those born without her participation, tries to take food from them” . What question of the gardener did Aesop answer in this parable?

Answer: To the question: "Why do weeds grow better than plants planted by man?". The earth is trying to take away food from non-native children, so that her own children get more, her own children are weeds.

The meaning of the game is that a team of experts answers questions sent by a team of viewers.

Basic Rules

Description of the gameplay

AT TV version games, a team of experts, consisting of six people, answers questions sent by viewers. The question is selected by a top, which in turn launches the manager.

Experts are given one minute to discuss the issue, after which the team captain selects an expert who will answer the question. There are also cases when the team gives an answer ahead of schedule: an expert who knows the answer usually puts his fist on the table with his thumb bent up. If the answer is correct, then the connoisseurs earn an additional minute for discussion, which they can use on any next question on this game. The number of extra minutes depends on the team's early responses. As of recently, experts can take a "minute credit" on this question, but on the condition that they answer one of the following questions without a minute's discussion.

The game has a hint club help. If the experts do not know the answer to the question, then they can ask for help from those who are now in the hall. Those present are given 20 seconds to express their versions. Since 2007, “club help” can only be taken if the score is not in favor of experts. Since 2010, it has also been banned from blitz, super blitz and final rounds.

Due to the very large number of people in the hall, there are cases of unauthorized tips. The steward, who noticed this violation of the rules of the game, raises a red card. There are operators in the hall who can record the hint on video cameras. The violator is taken out of the hall until the end of the game.
On April 10, 2016, a yellow card was introduced. Shown by the stewards of the hall to the presenter at the moment when the captain of the playing team asks for the help of the club, and only if, during the discussion, they notice suspicions in the hint. The team is deprived of the help of the club in this round, but, unlike the red card, can give an answer. The violator will suffer a more serious punishment and, at the end of the round, will be required to leave the hall before the end of the game. The help of the club does not burn out and the team can use it in the next rounds if the score is not in favor of the experts. Since 2018, the card has been abolished.

When a team of connoisseurs gives an incorrect answer, the viewers whose questions the connoisseurs made a mistake receive cash prizes: the viewer who brought the first point to his team receives 50 000 rubles, second point 60 000 , third - 70 000 , fourth - 80 000 , fifth - 90 000 and the sixth point 100 000 rubles(until 2012 the amounts were from 10 000 before 60 000 rubles). If the team of experts wins, the undrawn money goes into the prize fund of the final of the year, i.e. if the experts win with a score of 6:4, 190,000 rubles are added to the fund for the missing 5 and 6 viewer points.

Squat games

In some cases, 2 or more teams of experts can play during one game. This type of game is called squatting games. Its essence is that after each incorrect answer, the teams are replaced: the teams are swapped. The team that starts the game is determined by lot. If the experts win, the team that brought the decisive point last wins.

Description of the location and process of filming

Place for playing connoisseurs

Filming of the game takes place in Moscow, in the Hunting Lodge of the Neskuchny Garden. It is equipped with a special room with a table, which is divided into 6 sectors in a large radius (for each member of the team of experts) and 13 sectors in a small one - for questions. The questions themselves are in envelopes, which in turn lie on 12 sectors signed with the names of the cities of the participants who sent the question (among these 12 questions there are questions "blitz" and "super blitz"). On the thirteenth sector is a plastic plate on which the number 13 is printed in red (from 2001 to 2011 the Pragmatica number font, from 2011 the Arial number font, since 2013 the number font has become a little bold). In the center of the table is a spinning top with an arrow. The spinning top spins the steward, and the question on which the arrow stops is chosen for the game. The envelope containing the question is placed in a special clothespin located on one of the monitors above the experts themselves. The monitors usually show a photograph or a video shot specifically for the question by the author of the question, a video filmed by correspondents for the question, or drawings, paintings that help experts answer.

Advocates

Every game in the club there are defenders of the interests of connoisseurs, viewers, as well as the Keeper of Traditions. Their opinion is taken into account when resolving disputes.

• Connoisseur Advocate. Appeared in 2002. The advocate of the interests of connoisseurs chooses the best connoisseur of the game and presents him with the "Crystal Atom" prize. At the moment, Andrey Cheremisinov, Director of the Communications Department of Rosatom State Corporation, is the Advocate of the interests of connoisseurs; in some games, Alexei Likhachev, General Director of the corporation, can replace him. Earlier defenders were lawyer Mikhail Barshchevsky, lawyer of the Moscow Bar Association Natalia Barshchevskaya, representatives of the general sponsor - MTS company: Mikhail Susov (2003-2004), Igor Stolyarov (2005), Grzegorz Esh (2006), Mikhail Shamolin (2006), Sergey Beshev ( 2007-2008), Alexander Popovsky (2009-2012), director of the Rosatom Communications Department Sergey Novikov (2013-2016).
• Advocate for the interests of TV viewers. Appeared in 1991. The viewers' advocate chooses the best question of the game and determines the value of the viewers' winnings. Since the fall of 2018, the position has been held by Dmitry Breitenbikher, Senior Vice President of VTB Bank. From 2002 to 2009, the vice-president of Binbank Grigory Guselnikov was the defender of the interests of the team of viewers, in 2010 - Dmitry Akulinin, from 2011 to 2012 - vice-president of the Bank of Moscow Irina Nikitenko, from 2013 to 2018 - vice-president of the bank VTB (formerly "Bank of Moscow") Vladimir Verkhoshinsky, in some games they were replaced by the president of the Bank of Moscow, Mikhail Kuzovlev.
• Tradition Keeper. A position that existed from 2001 to 2016. As the name suggests, he enforces the rules and "traditions" of the club. From May 19, 2001 to December 26, 2009 Mikhail Barshchevsky was the "Keeper of Traditions", from March 27, 2010 to June 19, 2016 - Grigory Guselnikov.

Hall stewards

There are two stewards in the hall, making sure that there are no clues. Also, one of the stewards rotates the top, and the other takes out objects, black boxes and beats the gong. Currently, the stewards are Alexander Bakalov (since 2013) and Polina Lysenko (since 2017), previously the stewards were Nikolay Lgovsky (1984-2001), Andrey Lgovsky (early 1990s), Andrey Lysenko (1993-2013), Alexey Vetyugov ( late 1990s), Boris Fuks (2001-2016), Evgeny Galkin (2011) and others.

Mikhail and Olga Barshchevsky



Alexey Likhachev



Andrey Cheremisinov



Sergey Novikov



Grigory Guselnikov



Vladimir Verkhoshinsky



Dmitry Breitenbikher



Nikolai Lgovsky



Boris Fuchs



Evgeny Galkin



Alexander Bakalov



Polina Lysenko

Questions

General information

The game requires great education and a broad outlook in the field of modern science, the ability to think quickly, in an original and extraordinary way, observation and attentiveness.

Questions belong to different areas of knowledge and have different styles, so the best players will be the most erudite and well-read. In a strong team, harmonious cooperation should be established between people with different ways of thinking, if possible - specialists in different fields. Much depends on training, the ability to understand within the team.

Question types

Sample Questions

• Before you is an ancient Egyptian manuscript; it says about a certain slave: "He hears perfectly with both ears, honest and obedient." This text is regarded as one of the early copies of... what? (Answer: advertisements)
• The board of McDonald's believes that rumors that McDonald's meat dishes are prepared from earthworms can be easily refuted by comparing them to meat. Question: by what criteria? (Answer: for the price, worms cost a lot more)
• According to the humorous calendar of Belyaev and Shtalber, “If this statement were true, this is wouldn't taste so good." Guess what the statement is about and name this is. (Answer: wine).
• Once Mark Twain's friend, Harry Duman, borrowed $500, promising to pay it back in a month - of course, if he was still alive. Question: what did Mark Twain do without receiving what he promised in a month? (Answer: Posted Duman's obituary)
• In Ambrose Bierce's fable, a deputy promises his constituents not to steal after receiving office. When it turned out that he was stealing huge sums, voters demanded an answer. The deputy replied that, yes, he promised not to steal, but did not make another promise. What? (Answer: promises not to lie)
• Jerome K. Jerome compared this is with the government, because both are valued only as long as they are good. Name it. (Answer: weather)
• Russian humorist Mikhail Zadornov said that he was not angry with the communists, since they never deceived him. But why, according to him, they did not deceive him? (Answer: because he never believed them anyway)

Game history by years

Vladimir Voroshilov

Boris Kryuk

1975. September 4 - On this day, there was one game with different rules - two families played against each other (as in the popular game "Lucky Chance"). The game consisted of two rounds filmed at each family's home. They united for the sake of a photograph for the family archive.

1976. A top appears, but in early games it was not a question that was chosen, but an answering player. Already this year the game “What? Where? When?" has already changed a lot and was called the "television youth club". Since Vladimir Voroshilov was forbidden to appear on the screen at that time, the first full-fledged release of the TV game was held by Alexander Maslyakov, who in the future will revive the KVN project. The first players were students of Moscow State University, who, when discussing the issue, spoke loudly and smoked. There was no one-minute discussion time limit, each person played for himself, not as a team.

1977. The game finally took on its final form: a spinning top showing a question and a one-minute limit on how long the question could be discussed. The first symbol appeared in the game - the eagle owl Fomka. The first questions were invented by Vladimir Voroshilov himself, and later, when the game became popular, they began to accept questions from the audience. It is known that bags of letters arrived every day, each of which had to be answered, the best questions chosen, the authenticity of the facts presented, edited, prepared, if necessary, the necessary items. Of course, one person cannot do such a job, and Voroshilov was assisted by his wife Natalya Stetsenko, who for many years headed the department of correspondence with the audience.

1979. Games began to be held regularly. The term "expert" appeared, now this word has become familiar to describe the participants in the game, the club is now usually called the "club of connoisseurs". Up to this point, there was no specific name for the players. The details of the game rules often changed, but the main prize was always books (which were hung on the Christmas tree during the final game) and a crystal owl.

1982. Introduced a six-point game rule

1983. Instead of the Ostankino television center, the games are being held in a mansion on Herzen Street

1984. A new prize has been introduced - the Crystal Owl. The best player at the end of the year becomes its owner

1987. Hosting the International Games in Bulgaria

1988-1989 International games in Sovincenter. Several teams participate in the game at the same time.

1990. The program begins to leave the Hunting Lodge in the Neskuchny Garden

1991. The game has become more commercialized, that is, it has turned from an "intellectual club" into an "intellectual casino". Experts begin to play for money

1992. Starting this year, there are two series a year - summer and winter. A zero sector appeared, called the "zero sector". It appeared instead of the sector with the largest amount, which was supposed to be for the correct answer. Each question now has a certain “cost”, which can be increased by putting the money won on a certain playing field. Sponsors and lawyers appeared (Mikhail Barshchevsky).

1995. In honor of the 20th anniversary of the game, the Immortal Games are held. The title of Master of the Club has been introduced. Alexander Druz became the first master

1999. The game is temporarily released on the NTV channel. Held Christmas Series

2000. In autumn, an experimental series of games takes place, in which, in addition to connoisseurs and viewers, the Internet team also participates. Using the site www.rambler.ru, registered Internet users during a minute of discussion give their versions of the answer. The most popular version becomes the final answer from the Internet team, and the Internet user who sends the correct version faster than the rest gets the amount that was at stake. The account is indicated in the order "viewers:experts:Internet".

In December, the Anniversary Games are held, in which the existence of the game is at stake. The title of Master is awarded to Maxim Potashev. On December 30, Vladimir Voroshilov played his last game

2001. This year, the host of the game, Vladimir Voroshilov, dies. After that, his adopted son began to play the game - Boris Kryuk. At first he distorted his voice, but soon revealed himself and began to play with his own voice. In the summer, a series is held in which it is decided whether the game will exist without Voroshilov. In winter, the gaming table was updated, games for money were discontinued. Since then, the value of questions has been determined by telephone voting by viewers (the difference between the number of “like” and “dislike” votes multiplied by 10 rubles; negative sums were equated to zero). At the same time, the thirteenth sector was introduced (in 2000 this sector was called the “Internet sector”).

2002. The game began to be held annually in four series: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. After all the games, the final game of the year is held, in which the best team of experts of the season takes part. In total, 17 games are played per year. The Crystal Owl is now awarded 3 times a year. A new prize has been introduced - the Diamond Owl, which is awarded to the best player of the winning team in the Final of the Year.

2005. Celebration of the 30th anniversary of the game. Victor Sidnev becomes the third master. From now on, in the finals of the anniversary year, the winning team is awarded the Crystal Nest - 6 crystal owls.

2008. From this year, cash prizes for TV viewers have changed. For the first point for his team, the viewer receives 10,000 rubles, for each subsequent point 10 thousand more. Thus, for the sixth point, the viewer receives 60,000 rubles. In the final of the year, Andrey Kozlov was recognized as the fourth master, and his team was awarded a crystal nest, since the 33rd year was recognized as an anniversary.

2013. Viewers' winnings have increased. Depending on the point won, the viewer receives from 50 to 100 thousand rubles. The game is coming out in HD quality.

2015. Since this year, the number of broadcasts per year has increased from 17 to 20. Now the spring, summer and autumn series consist of 5 games. The Academy of TV viewers appears.

2018. For the first time, a series of games "Children of the XXI century" was held, in which teams of schoolchildren took part. The fifth Academician (Radik Khabibullin) and the fifth Master (Elizaveta Ovdeenko) appear in the Club.

Live

One of the main features of the game is that it takes place live. During the live broadcast, viewers could give an answer using MTS phones. However, the cost of the message has increased from 5-6 cents (according to the tariff plan) to 10 rubles. In addition, the first connoisseurs were given a good phone.

Prizes and titles

owls

• crystal owl- The prize was introduced in 1984. Awarded to the best player from the expert team and the best player from the TV viewer team based on the results of a series of games. The first owner of the Crystal Owl was Nurali Latypov. There is a special prize in the Anniversary seasons - crystal nest, representing six small owls on a crystal tray. Awarded to the best team of the anniversary year; thus, each member of the team becomes the owner of the Crystal Owl. The prize was awarded twice - in 2008 to the team of Andrey Kozlov and in 2010 to the team of Balash Kasumov.

Prize winners ( in italics owls obtained as part of the Crystal Nest are highlighted):

1. Alexander Druz - 1990, 1992 (winter), 1995 (winter), 2000 (autumn), 2006 (summer), 2012 (spring);
2. Fedor Dvinyatin - 1991 (summer), 1994 (summer), 2000 (winter), 2002 (spring);
3. Maxim Potashev - 1997 (winter), 2000 (winter), 2000 (winter), 2016 (autumn);
4. Andrey Kozlov - 1992 (summer), 1994 (winter), 2008 (winter);
5. Boris Burda - 1998 (winter), 2000 (winter), 2008 (winter);
6. Dmitry Avdeenko - 2009 (winter), 2010 (winter), 2018 (summer);
7. Julia Lazareva - 2010 (winter), 2015 (autumn), 2017 (spring);
8. Alexey Blinov - 1992 (summer), 1993 (winter);
9. Alexander Rubin - 1995 (summer), 1996 (summer);
10. Valentina Golubeva - 2003 (summer), 2003 (autumn);
11. Ilya Novikov - 2004 (autumn), 2014 (summer);
12. Vladimir Molchanov - 1991 (winter), 2008 (winter);
13. Nikolai Silantiev - 2008 (winter), 2008 (winter);
14. Elizabeth Ovdeenko - 2010 (winter), 2011 (spring);
15. Mikhail Skipsky - 2010 (winter), 2016 (spring);
16. Nurali Latypov - 1984;
17. Marina Govorushkina - 1985;
18. Leonid Vladimirsky - 1986;
19. Oleg Dolgov - 1987;
20. Neiko Neikov - 1987;
21. Nikita Shangin - 1988;
22. Vladislav Petrushko - 1989;
23. Lyudmila Gerasimova - 1993 (summer);
24. Georgy Zharkov - 1998 (summer);
25. Alexander Byalko - 2000 (winter);
26. Alla Damsker - 2000 (winter);
27. Marina Druz - 2000 (winter);
28. Dmitry Eremin - 2000 (winter);
29. Sergey Tsarkov - 2000 (winter);
30. Victor Sidnev - 2001 (summer);
31. Rovshan Askerov - 2001 (winter);
32. Dmitry Konovalenko - 2002 (summer);
33. Mikhail Moon - 2002 (autumn);
34. Inna Druz - 2003 (winter);
35. Ales Mukhin - 2004 (spring);
36. Asya Shavinskaya - 2004 (summer);
37. Andrey Bychutkin - 2006 (autumn);
38. Grigory Alkhazov - 2011 (summer);
39. Vladimir Stepanov - 2012 (autumn);
40. Gunel Babayeva - 2013 (summer);
41. Boris Levin - 2014 (autumn);
42. Boris Belozerov - 2017 (autumn);
43. Elman Talybov - 2019 (spring);
44. Alexey Kapustin - 2008 (winter);
45. Igor Kondratyuk - 2008 (winter);
46. Vladimir Antokhin - 2010 (winter);
47. Balash Kasumov - 2010 (winter);
48. Roman Alloyarov - Little Crystal Owl, 1997 (winter).

• diamond owl- it is received by the best player according to the results of the year. The prize was founded in 2002.

• Owl sign- was the predecessor of the Crystal Owl, was awarded several times in the early 1980s.

Prize winners

1. Alexander Byalko;
2. Sergei Ilyin;
3. Ludmila Gerasimova.

Jackets

Red jacket was a sign "immortal club member"- a person who could stay in the club even if his team lost. It was introduced in the 1991 winter series. Jackets were given to all owners of the "Crystal Owl", including connoisseurs who received "owls" before the introduction of the title of "immortal". In the winter series of 1994 and in the spring series of 1995 jackets were awarded to all players of the teams of Mikhail Smirnov and Alexei Blinov. After the conclusion of the Games of the Immortals in 1995, the jackets were abolished.

Shoulder strap of the best captain

This epaulette is issued to the best captain every five years. Introduced in 2000 by Vladimir Voroshilov. In the final game of 2000, he decided to present the club's best captain's epaulette to the most outstanding captains in the history of the game. He did not have enough time on the air in 2000, and Boris Kryuk presented shoulder straps in the summer of 2001, after Voroshilov's death. Prize winners:

1. Andrey Kamorin (2001);
2. Boris Eremin (2001);
3. Vladimir Lutovinov (2001);
4. Viktor Sidnev (2001);
5. Andrey Kozlov (2001);
6. Alexey Blinov (2001);
7. Ales Mukhin (2005);
8. Balash Kasumov (2010).

Cadet epaulette

Awarded by a connoisseur with the shoulder strap of the best captain at the end of each series "Children of the XXI century" to the best captain of this series. Shoulder strap holders:

1. Kirill Emelin (2018);
2. Artyom Savochkin (2019).

Title of Club Master

Since 1995, in each anniversary season of the game, one of the experts has been awarded the title of master. This title is currently held by:

1. Alexander Druz (since 1995);
2. Maxim Potashev (since 2000);
3. Viktor Sidnev (since 2005);
4. Andrey Kozlov (since 2008);
5. Elizaveta Ovdeenko (since 2018).

The title of academician of the club

Similarly with the masters of the club, in the final of 2015 the title of academician was introduced. It is assigned to active viewers who:

• have either a Crystal Owl or a Diamond Owl and have scored six victories over connoisseurs;
• twice awarded either the Crystal Owl or the Diamond Owl, regardless of the number of victories over connoisseurs.

Academics are always invited to the Club for the Series Finals and Year Finals, whether their questions are at the table or not. In case of TV viewers' victory, academicians, like masters, take a collective part in choosing the winner of the final prize. This title is currently held by:

1. Sergei Chevdar from Chornomorsk, Ukraine (winner of the Crystal Owl);
2. Svetlana Sumachakova from Gorno-Altaisk, Republic of Altai (two-time winner of the Crystal Owl);
3. Tatyana Medvedeva from Saratov (winner of the "Diamond Owl");
4. Zhanna Polyanskaya from Syktyvkar, Komi Republic (winner of the Diamond Owl);
5. Radik Khabibullin from the village of Popovka, Perm Territory (winner of the Crystal Owl), since October 28, 2018.

Prize for the brightest answer

In the final game of 2015, for the first time, a special prize was awarded for the brightest answer of the year. It is a gold-colored cufflink with the image of an owl. The prize is awarded annually to a connoisseur who, thanks to insight and out-of-the-box thinking, was able to give a bright answer at a crucial moment. Prize winners:

1. Alena Povysheva (2015, question about the shape of the patisson in the third game of the Winter Series)
2. Boris Belozyorov (2016, super blitz question about Ilya Oblomov in the third game of the Summer Series)
3. Elizaveta Ovdeenko (2017, blitz question about Ramon Gomez de la Serna's gregars in the second game of the Winter Series)
4. Elizaveta Ovdeenko (2018, question about the parent of the rhyme in the fourth game of the Winter Series)

Other prizes and awards

• Insignia "For services to the game" What? Where? When? "" - was awarded on May 14, 2005 to "the best expert of all times and peoples" Alexander Druz on the occasion of his 50th birthday, which fell on May 10. In the same game, he was presented with a Scottish Fold kitten.
• “For the will to win” (“Diamond Snake”) - was awarded on December 24, 2005 to Andrey Kozlov, who, after losing on November 19, 2005, throughout the next game proved the correctness of his incorrect answer - he stuffed the snake with rice according to his recipe.
• Medal for 50 Games - Awarded on April 15, 2018 to Viktor Sidnev for his 50th participation in a TV game. On the same day, Andrei Kozlov, Alexei Kapustin and Maxim Potashev received the same medals for participation in more than 50 games. This medal could also be received by the old-timer of the club Alexander Druz, who had played 91 games at that time, but he was offered a new medal when he sat down as a player for the 100th time.

pauses

For breaks in the game, various pauses are used to cheer up the team of connoisseurs:

• Musical pause - the host takes this pause after the third round and later, except for those moments when the score is 3:0 in favor of the experts.
• Coffee break - held from March 4, 2018, connoisseurs are served coffee brand Ambassador.
• Earlier in the game there was a Tea Break, which was usually held when the time is 23:00-0:00 (in winter time earlier). Ahmad tea was served - the sponsor of the TV game show.

Music in the game

Here is a list of all the music themes that have been used in the gameplay before and now:

• On December 30, 2000, as part of the Last Tour season, a game took place that decided the fate of the club. If the connoisseurs lost, it is unlikely that we would see the game again. The general director of ORT Konstantin Ernst was even present in the hall.
• After the death of Vladimir Voroshilov, the fate of the game was under a big question: who will lead the game? The program returned to the air "on schedule" - The summer series of 2001 was held under the question "To be or not to be a game without Voroshilov?". The Club will continue to exist if the connoisseurs win the final game, and also if the audience by a majority votes for the continuation of the Club. Connoisseurs won with a score of 6:4, and 91% of the audience voted for the "Be" option. The series of games was entirely dedicated to the creator of the game, Vladimir Voroshilov.
• Since 2001, the game has been hosted by Boris Kryuk, but he spent the Summer Series of the same year with a processed understated voice. No one knew who was leading the game, initially it was thought that Hook's cousin was the host. In view of such uncertainty, the host was addressed in this way - “Mr. Leading”. This tradition has been preserved to this day.
• The winter series of 2001 opened the game in a completely new way. The studio has been revamped to a more modern look, and the connoisseurs no longer gamble. From now on, only the best connoisseurs with spectators receive cash prizes along with Owls.
• Since the 2002 season, four episodes have been aired: Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Previously, only the Summer and Winter Series were played.
• In the second game of the 2002 summer series, someone's cell phone rang in the audience.
• According to the host of the game, Boris Kryuk, if a team of experts wins in the final of the year, then almost always with a score of 6:5, and if it loses, then most often with a score of 6:3.
• The shortest game (41 minutes) was on April 10, 2010 - then the presenter did not take a musical break.
• On April 17, 2010, for the first time, one of the players of Andrei Kozlov's team, Igor Kondratyuk, played via Skype, due to the inability to fly to Moscow due to an ash cloud from a volcanic eruption. The team won this game. This is the first time that a club expert participated in the discussion in absentia.
• On May 28, 1994, the team of Alexei Vavilov, with a score of 0:5 in favor of the viewers, took 6 questions in a row and won with a score of 6:5. The situation was practically repeated in the team of Alexei Blinov on April 12, 2008, with the exception of the initial score of 1:5.
• In the final game of 2008, Boris Kryuk, the host of the game, went to the hall for the first time to see the experts.
• In the final of 2008, the player who was supposed to answer the questions of the super blitz was chosen by a top.
• In the final game of 2010 in the thirteenth sector, a question was asked not from the Internet, but invented by the presenter himself. The question sounded like this: “We try the nut on the tooth - it doesn’t give in. We are looking for a heavier object nearby, but we do not find such an object. We turn the nut over, look at it in the light until we find a small crack in the shell, and putting the shell so that the crack is on top, we hit it with force and either split it or make sure that the crack turned out to be false. “Who and about what said all this?" Dmitry Avdeenko answered it correctly, and the correct answer was “This is a very beautiful metaphor for what is happening here and now. The nut in this case is a question, and we are trying to find a weak point in it, open it to find the right answer. And, most likely, Vladimir Yakovlevich Voroshilov proposed such a metaphor.
• In 2008, at the final of the year, the 33rd game was recognized by the masters as a jubilee, but with one caveat, “if the 66th game is recognized as a jubilee”.
• In 2011, the 13th sector fell out in the first game of the autumn series of the game, but it had to be canceled due to technical problems. For the first time in the history of the game, such an incident occurred in the final game of the 2007 summer series. The next incident occurred in the first game of the spring 2014 series - again due to technical issues, possibly related to updating the screen design.
• In the 2013 Final, before the start of the game, the team of Ales Mukhin and personally Ilya Novikov, who had previously lost the game in the Super Blitz in the Decisive Round, tried to appeal the fatal question. After lengthy discussions and disputes (about 15 minutes), Mikhail Barshchevsky advised to immediately replay the issue. The presenter supported the idea and asked the audience in the hall whether to replay the question or not, and the decision would be made if at least 7 votes were received. As a result, 9 spectators voted "for", two "against", one spectator had to abstain due to the fact that she did not see the previous game. Only after the vote, the host clarified that if Mukhin's team played, then those who voted "for" decided to give the question without a possible win with their vote. The question from the 13th sector was chosen as a question for replay. It contained a question not from the Internet, but from the Host himself. Unlike the 2010 Finals, Boris Kryuk, like the Zero sector, went to Ilya Novikov, and the hourglass played the role of a “minute for reflection”. The question was lost, and the team of Konstantin Ruder entered the final game.
• In the final game of 2013, I played a question from Pavel Boytsov, who came to Moscow with his family, his son was with him in the hall. During the announcement of the correct answer, the junior representative of the family started to open the black box too early, which was followed by a rather violent reaction from the host. The case became a meme and gained great popularity outside the audience of “What? Where? When?".
• April 12, 2014, according to the results of the final game of the Spring Series, Svetlana Sumachakova from Gorno-Altaisk became the first viewer in the history of “What? Where? When?" - two-time winner of the Crystal Owl.
• September 7, 2014, in the first game of the Autumn Series, Irina Nizamova became the first female expert in the history of “What? Where? When? ”, which won the super blitz. The peculiarity of the fact is also that Irina was a reserve player of the Rosatom team, and this game was the debut for Irina.
• On September 13, 2014, in the second game of the Autumn Series, the team of Balash Kasumov felt the effect of the "butterfly wing". In the 13th sector, due to the limited number of lines displayed on the screen, the question was far from being shown in full. Even so, there was a correct version at the table, but the connoisseurs gave the wrong answer. After some time, it was decided to remove the question of the 13th sector, and the sector itself to be removed from the table, although it was possible to choose another question from the Internet. Then a number of circumstances followed: during the replay of the round, a top was touched, which could decide the fate of the game; on the chosen question, the team did not take an extra minute and lost a point, after which there was such a situation on the table that with a probability of 12/13 the next question would be a super blitz; On the third question of the super blitz Elizaveta Ovdeenko gives a very offensive error, although she was well versed in the field of knowledge of the question. As a result, the negligence of technical editors led to the defeat and the team's exit from the season.
• On April 30, 2017, singer Philip Kirkorov received the "Diamond Owl" on the occasion of his anniversary, as well as for "a whole cascade of bright musical pauses."
• On July 2, 2017, the team of Rovshan Askerov lost with a score of 0:6. This is the first recorded case when a team ends the game with such a score without a decisive round, that is, without correctly answering 6 questions in a row.
• In the final game of 2018, the Diamond Owl was awarded to Konstantin Bogatsky from the German city of Kempten. Konstantin was not able to come to the game, but immediately after the award, they got in touch with him and were able to personally congratulate him on the air.

Parodies

• In one of the episodes of the TV show "Jolly Fellows" a parody of "What? Where? When?". The presenter Vladimir Voroshilov was parodied by Leonid Sergeev, and the role of the connoisseur was played by Nurali Latypov, who later became one of the club members and the first owner of a crystal owl.
• Numerous parodies of “What? Where? When?" were shown in KVN. In one of the parodies, Rovshan Askerov was an invited participant. And in 2018, the KVN Star Team took part in the game itself.
• A parody of the program was contained in one of the episodes of the TV program "Dolls" (1997).
• Several parodies were also made by the participants of the OSP-studio program. In addition to parodies of the game itself (connoisseurs Boris Burda, Alexander Byalko and Alexander Druz were parodied), a parody of the program “Without a tie” was also shown with the participation of connoisseurs.
• On the stage, the game was parodied by Vladimir Vinokur (in the program “Is there an extra ticket”) and Maxim Galkin. According to Galkin, the program was led by Vladimir Putin, who read letters from George Bush, Boris Berezovsky and Gerhard Schroeder, and Boris Yeltsin, Viktor Chernomyrdin, Grigory Yavlinsky and Valeria Novodvorskaya were experts.
• Three TV game parodies of “What? Where? When" were in the TV show "Big Difference".
• A whole episode of the TV show “Mult Personality” (May 8, 2012) consisted of a parody of the game, where the connoisseurs were Dmitry Dibrov, Anastasia Volochkova, Gennady Onishchenko, Tina Kandelaki and Dmitry Guberniev, the team captain was Alexander Lukashenko, and the host was Vladimir Zhirinovsky.
• It was parodied several times by the Comedy Club program, and on New Year's Eve 2010, some connoisseurs (including Alexander Druz) were depicted as 3D puppets in the ProjectorParisHilton program. The program hosts themselves, whose broadcast often came right before “What? Where? When”, several times they parodied Boris Kryuk’s introduction at the end of their program, and once the viewers really believed what was happening.

Awards

• TEFI-1997 in the "Entertainment program" nomination
• TEFI-2001 in the TV Game nomination
• TEFI-2011 in the TV Game. Intellectual competition»
• TEFI-2014 in the TV Game nomination
• TEFI-2016 in the TV Game nomination
• TEFI-2018 in the TV Game nomination

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Notes

Links

• Directory of links to regional clubs of intellectual games
• Database of questions asked in sports tournaments on “What? Where? When?”, “Brain Ring” and “Own Game”

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