The question of brainwashing is called philosophical by the man himself. Pub quiz: people are willing to pay for the right to answer simple questions
“People are ready to pay money for food, entertainment and sex. We cannot offer sex. The food is there as well. The entertainment remains. Take care of people and they will make you rich." The creators of the most popular Minsk pub quiz - "Brain Boins" - told KYKY how to make money on people who like to rack their brains.
The idea of pub quizzes was born in England in the late 1970s. Teams gather in the relaxed atmosphere of the bar, drink beer and answer simple and fun questions. The winner receives a prize - usually rather symbolic. Everything is simple, and, as often happens with simple things, brilliant: players can feel the excitement of the fight and at the same time not spoil their mood with a bad result.
The opinion of Pavel Sverdlov, the owner of the Crystal Owl of the Ukrainian TV club “What? Where? When?"
“The brain slaughterhouse is an awl. I go there because my friends are calling me. Questions - slag, dupes from the Internet, and even from sports games. Here was on last game picture - people's faces are closed, it was necessary to guess who it is. And these were Timati and Kobzon. How to take it? Know all the photos of Timati or all of Kobzon's friends? Very, damn, useful knowledge.
Another picture - a photo of Berlin from an airplane, the western and eastern ones glow with different lights. Well, this is a boyanishche! At the same time, many questions are formulated in such a way that it is possible to come up with three or ten equally probable answers ... In a CHG, for example, a question must contain information that unambiguously leads to the correct answer, otherwise it is not a question. And in Mozgobojna there are no quality requirements for questions, so there is no quality ... I think that for the money that the authors of Mozgobojny collect, one could approach the package much more professionally and come up with something really witty. But why, if the people and so hawala?
I have a huge respect for the authors of the Melotrek project - that's who really invests a lot of time and effort in preparation and 100% works out the money that participants pay for the game!
Pub quizzes are very popular in America and Europe - in the UK alone, more than 20,000 games take place every week. Intellectual fun came to Belarus only a few years ago, but the public fell in love very quickly: bar quizzes are held in Minsk almost every week, their formats are becoming more diverse, dozens of teams gather for games. The pioneer of the genre in the Republic of Belarus was "Brain Slaughter". For three years, the game of Sasha Khanin and Katya Maksimova has gathered a whole army of players, and not only in Minsk - “Brainstorm” is regularly held in different cities of Belarus, and has recently spread beyond the borders of the country. Where there are many players, there is a lot of money. The organizers of the Belarusian pub quiz told KYKY how fun for friends has become a profitable business.
Where did pub quizzes come from?
Sasha Khanin and Katya Maksimova
Sasha: We have been living in Lithuania for quite a long time, and there we played several similar projects ourselves. There is quite a lot of competition among Lithuanian pub quizzes: when MozgoBoynia was launched in Minsk three years ago, there were already 10-15 different small projects in Vilnius. One of the games was made by our friend, and he offered us a crazy idea for us at that time - to hold a game in Minsk.
Kate: We laughed at once, but after a few months we decided. We translated a couple of packages of questions from Lithuanian into Russian - and started playing.
Was your pub quiz the first in Minsk?
Sasha: To be honest, I have not studied the history of pub quizzes in Belarus - but it seems that there was nothing like this before us.
Kate: Perhaps they had their own closed parties. In Minsk, the sports movement “What? Where? When?”, many teams play here. The ChGK members probably gathered in a more informal atmosphere and played something similar. But we have not seen such a format.
Who came to your first games?
Kate: For the first game, we gathered 60 people - all friends and relatives. This was one of the reasons for launching the game: we spent most of the time in Vilnius, we saw our Minsk friends much less often than we would like - the game allowed us to change that. Then word of mouth worked. It started with 10 teams, and now almost two and a half hundred are playing with us, and with each next game they are all added.
When did you get your first paycheck?
Sasha: In the first year there was no income at all, everything went to zero. After all, our friends played with us - and we gave them gifts, bought tangerines for the new year. We just tried to create a friendly atmosphere: to make people interested, to be able to laugh. Everything grew gradually: 60 people, 70, 80 ... If someone said 3 years ago that I would host events for 400 people 6 times a month, I would probably twist my finger at my temple. I'm not exactly a very shy person with no public speaking experience - but 400 people!
Kate: We never counted money, we initially had a different motivation. When you graduate from university, you start working - you understand that memory slows down, the brain starts to grow dull. What to do? Read books. And in order to read more, you need something to push, motivate you.
Sasha: At first we wanted to solve Scanavi's problems, but we didn't find a textbook.
Kate: So we decided to do something that would make people's brains move, the gears would work. That is, initially we did everything for ourselves - and until recently we did not even notice how much we expanded.
Sasha: What people are willing to pay money for is food, entertainment and sex. We cannot offer sex - except that in questions it constantly slips. We have food. The entertainment remains. Take care of people and they will make you rich. Now everyone who wants to play Brain Slaughter cannot fit into one bar, and the games take place for several days in a row, at different venues.
Kate: This is a precedent decision. A lot of teams have gathered - what to do? We decided to play in two days, and then in three. “Brain Slaughter” is being developed not so much by us as by people: many players have gathered - we are looking for a large room, the people wanted a cultural component - we organize musical breaks. People wanted to hold "Brainstorm" in other cities - we opened a franchise.
Sasha: At first there was a dilemma: ask the same questions on the second day - or do new game. Due to natural laziness, they leaned towards the first option. After all, we initially positioned the game as leisure, entertainment, and not a sport. It seems that teams can merge the correct answers - but who needs it? Why fight for a bottle of champagne? (prize for winning the game - ed. note) We have no sponsors, no big prizes, no ratings. People come to relax!
What part of the profit goes to the organization of games?
Kate: We pay everyone who helps us: from the sound engineer to the guys who run around the hall and collect answer sheets. We are not chasing anyone for thanks!
Rusya and Dmitry Shepelevich
Sasha: We have a DJ who is responsible for the atmosphere of the game - I think he does half the job.
Kate: There is a person from whom we rent projectors - Pavel Turonchik, aka Plaha. We pay him for delivery, installation and connection of projectors. Everything is complicated there, whole heaps of wires - it is necessary that the projectors work, and the TVs around the hall, and the sound goes in sync with the picture ...
Sasha: There is also a person who helps us in social networks, with accounting, office work, ticket printing, and the proceeds are transferred to the bank - Dima Shepelevich.
Kate: And the guys who help us on the spot: collect leaflets with answers, help check them and give points.
Do the clubs ask for a specific amount for rent - or is it all for mutual benefit?
Kate: Differently. Some clubs claim a fixed rate, someone asks for a percentage of the proceeds: sometimes 10, sometimes 30. Different institutions have completely different conditions.
Sasha: On average, about 45% of the profit goes to the organization.
Suma performance
Kate: Sometimes we have a group performing - at the opening of the season, for example, Šuma played. The fee, the rental of equipment, the work of a sound engineer - and as a result, the game turns out to be zero, fashion. But, I want to believe, everyone likes it.
How Brainstorm Conquers Cities
For three gaming days, more than 200 teams come to MozgoBoynya, on average 6 people play in each. Participation in the game costs 40.000 - it is not difficult to calculate the total profit. Every month there are 2-3 games. This, however, is not all the earnings of the organizers - MozgoBoinya has been franchised all over Belarus.
How did the geographical spread - the capture of the "Brain Slaughter" of Belarus - start?
Kate: We didn't capture anyone! There were no advertisements in the newspapers.
Sasha: But the media played an important role in this. The first person who contacted us, Rinat Karimov from Vitebsk, read an article in KP. I used to be only in the very nightmare I could see what Komsomolskaya Pravda would write about us! Apparently, the stereotypes in my head worked.
Kate: Now we have two teams from Komsomolskaya Pravda playing: editors and journalists. One and the other are amazing.
Sasha: So, when a person from Vitebsk came to us and said that he wanted to make a game in his city, it was a signal for us that income could be converted into passive income. Then everything rolled like a snowball. They announced it a couple of times at the game - and offers poured in: “I want to spend there, I want to go there ...” But in fact, income is not passive in the classical sense: it takes a lot of energy to make “Brain Slaughter” for other cities.
Regional games are held on your questions?
Kate: Yes. Mostly on questions that we wrote for MozgoBoen two years ago.
Sasha: But we have to dig through the database of questions, and this is very cool: we discard questions that are not very successful or not very funny. We have a round of questions on fresh news - and fresh news is sent to all regions. People love to be taken care of, when you can see that the game is made especially for them. It's great to have local questions - and we encourage local organizers to include at least one question about their city in every game.
In how many cities does Brainstorm take place?
Kate: In addition to Minsk, another 9. From Belarusian - Vitebsk, Gomel, Grodno, Brest, Baranovichi, Bobruisk, plus Mogilev will start soon. There is also Bryansk, and in two weeks Peter is launched.
Sasha: We have special conditions for Belarus, and we would like to be evenly distributed throughout the country, so Orsha, Soligorsk, Novopolotsk, Pinsk and Lida are in the plans.
There are more and more pub quizzes in Minsk. How serious is the competition?
Sasha: Due to the fact that we now play for several days, the teams have a choice. Even if we have the same date as another pub quiz, teams can check in with us for another day.
Kate: 90% of the teams that play in alternative projects also play Brainstorm. You open the list of commands - all the names are familiar. In addition, we already have a recognizable “brainstorming” format of questions.
Sasha: We manage to make the questions interesting, so that people have fun, so that they laugh at their own answers - both right and wrong. I participated in many pub quizzes, not only in Lithuania and Belarus - and I think we are the best at questions. I don’t know how correct it is to assess it from my side, but it seems to me that we have become a trendsetter, which they look up to. Alternative projects are often compared to Brainstorm, the organizers themselves usually either go against us or try to copy the format of Brainstorm. And everyone has their own audience. In general, competition keeps us in good shape, spurs us on - so we are very grateful to other Minsk pub quizzes for what they are.
Seasoned players “What? Where? When?" they often criticize "Brain Slaughter": they say, your wording is not so clear, and the test is much softer ...
Kate: The rigidity of the offset is important when the result is important, when there is a rating, when defending the issue is a matter of honor. And we play for fun, and if the team explains its logic very close to the correct one, we will count the answer to it.
We want 12-year-olds to be able to play here, and grandparents too. Why do they need questions from “What? Where? When?"!
Sasha: Brain Slaughter has a human face. Ideal formulations, strict rules for counting questions - this is not the goal. People pay for entertainment, for a good evening, because we keep them awake at halftime.
Will there come a time when you can go into brain-killing retirement with nothing but passive income from the franchise?
Sasha: We hope never! Minsk will probably remain ours until we lose the ability to think or speak. As for the rest of the cities, we will eventually give them more autonomy so that this is a classic franchise.
Kate: We take a very small percentage - 10% of the proceeds, plus 30 euros for a package of questions. To get a serious commission, we need to cover 200 cities! Therefore, there is no question of any pension. We don't even see it as a business. We were told a couple of times from outside that we are businessmen, but we look at ourselves and think - is it true, or what?
Sasha: We already have plans for other countries - the Czech Republic, Germany, Switzerland. They have already arrived in Russia. For other countries, there will be other conditions, more stringent: there, people have a different solvency, and scale, plus the cost of translating and adapting games will be required.
Are there pub quizzes around the world?
Kate: To be honest, we have not studied the market. Perhaps something has grown as a "Brain Slaughter" - in the same America, for example. But there are no analogues of McDonald's in pub quizzes.
Sasha: I hope that in five years we will be able to discuss this topic from a different angle!
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Hello! On the nose New Year, and today I am writing an unusual review: it is not about Christmas decorations and not about products for your table. It is about the team intellectual and entertaining game MozgoBoinya, which is gaining popularity in the cities of Russia!
Mozgoboynya - a pub quiz (from the English pub quiz - a quiz in a bar) is a project founded in Belarus in 2005 and gradually moved by franchise to the regions of Russia and other countries - Ukraine, Poland, USA, Canada, Germany, Finland and others
Someone compares the game with "What? Where? When?" for ordinary people. But:
According to Pavel Sverdlov, the owner of the Crystal Owl of the Ukrainian version of “What? Where? When?", "Brain Slaughter" is a low-level game due to its lack of requirements for the quality of questions
Game format
This is a team competition that you need to register for online on a specific day. As a rule, the excitement is big, not all teams get into the tour, even though they allow 16-17 teams (8 people each) at a time! For the first time, our team "overslept" the registration, and I was called to another team. The city is small, most of the participants know each other more or less closely or in absentia, so it was, in general, easy to get to where there was a free place.
For the second time, the excitement did not subside, again 17 teams participated, but we managed to register with our line-up!
The game was held in a karaoke club with a large number of tables and screens. I am sure that the premises must necessarily meet the franchise requirements, because. this game has many clear rules, and playing it somewhere of your choice simply will not work. For example, games are held on weekdays, all after work, so they actively order food and drinks. So no kitchen.
Cost of participation
The game premiered in the city was free, but then you will have to pay 300 rubles for participation. Money is not big, for 2 hours of entertainment. Payment is requested to be made in one of the breaks between rounds of the game. It's a smart move in my opinion. You do not pay at the entrance (as if you enter for free) and do not look for someone to pay here at the end of the game.
Game progress
There are a total of 7 short 15-minute rounds in the game, each with 7 questions varying degrees seriousness. The host of the evening voices questions from the stage. As a rule, this is a guest local showman.
Tours 1, 4, 6 - these are text questions in which you need to guess anything you like from the description - a historical event, a person, a process, a phenomenon. Sometimes you have to translate into another language. In general, the questions are not easy. 40 seconds are given to think over each answer, then the question is replaced. But after that you will repeat all the questions and will be given 100 seconds to fill out the card. After that, the card must be quickly handed over to the assistants who are present in the hall.
Tour 2 dedicated to current events and news that happened just the other day. Probably my favorite tour, because. I really like to read news feeds, and I also regularly study all sorts of star digests and know what color Kim Kardashian's hair is today or who undertook to shoot the Lord of the Rings series. Yes, yes, there may be such questions.
For example, when a photo of the Moon with a flat shadow on it was shown on the screen with a request to comment on what news in question, I immediately remembered the recent flat-Earth theory that had recently died down - and I guessed it!
Tour 3 entirely musical. You will be asked to name the artist of the song excerpt, musical group, opera or ballet. Someone who is well known (Christina Aguilera) or not quite (Ella Fitzgerald) can get caught.
Tour 5 are pictures. Incomprehensible objects that need to be named, frames from films and cartoons, famous personalities in childhood, someone's eyes turned upside down.
Tour 7- blitz. Quick questions without repetition and 50 seconds to think.
One point is awarded for each correct answer, and a subtotal is calculated in the middle of the game to fuel the excitement among the teams. If you are behind, then the last round is your chance, because. the questions there are easy, and if you are sure of your answer, you can check the box next to it. Then for each correct answer you will get 2 points, and if you make a mistake, you will lose 2. That is, such is the casino with doubling bets. You can take a chance and fly by, or you can break out of the middle into the top three and even win!
By the way, I’ll say for myself that during the game there is almost no desire to cheat and look at the phone. I would like to test myself.
Brain Slaughter questions
The mechanism for developing questions is, I think, the secret of the company. But, nevertheless, in the search engines you can fill in the query "Brain Slaughter Questions" and see many examples from those that have already been heard. By the way, among them I found the same ones that were asked to us. So not every game is unique. I also have a few examples of questions from different Brainstorm tours for you.
Atmosphere of the game
Probably, this is the main thing for which the audience comes to the club. Victory is not the main thing here, the main thing is the mood, the spirit of excitement and competition, as well as the entertaining moment of the game. After all, the entertainer is trying with might and main, entertaining the audience with his jokes and performances. Just to reduce the importance of victory and show that the main thing in the Mozgoboyne is the process of the game itself, the organizers give the winners symbolic prizes - champagne. By the way, champagne can also be obtained for completing the tasks of the presenter. for example, for the hottest dances during a musical tour or for the best New Year's costumes. Everyone is trying their best :)
I think that the interest in the Mozgoboyne among the townspeople can be maintained for a long time by inventing different formats (picnic, corporate party, Valentine's Day, costumed carnival, birthday, etc.).
Two hours are very busy and fun. As a rule, games are accompanied by a professional photographer who will provide you with a decent team photo shoot. There will be something to consider the next day after the game. Well, a giant bottle of champagne for the winners every time becomes the common property of our friends. Walk, as they say, everything!
The game is really addictive, and people who at first are not very inspired by the idea of thinking about something and deciding something, after the first round turn into the most heatedly discussing participants (I'm talking about myself. I definitely recommend visiting the Brain Slaughter!
- What is a Brainstorm?
- Project Features
- Game Features
- Franchise from Brainstorm
Nowadays, a fairly large number of people suffer from a lack of intellectual entertainment. Indeed, more and more low-quality projects from abroad begin to come to us via the Internet, the main target audience of which is people with a minimum level of knowledge. But what about intellectuals who want to develop and train their brains? The answer is simple. To participate in Mozgobojne. This game is rapidly gaining popularity among people of various age groups, but besides having a great time, it is also a very profitable business. How to make money on Mozgoboy we'll take a closer look.
What is a Brainstorm?
Before you decide what you need to get started, you should clearly understand what this event is.
Brainstorm is an entertaining intellectual game that originated in Belarus in 2012. Since 2014, the creators of the game have been selling a franchise to host games. At the moment, the game is constantly organized in 51 cities.
Step-by-step plan for opening a club
To be part of such a significant project and make money on brainwashing you will need a minimum set of tools:
- Room for games.
- Brainstorm franchise.
- Screen.
- Service staff.
- Audio equipment.
- Symbolic prize.
As a rule, such a modest set is enough to launch a project in your city and start earning good money at regular events.
Project Features
The main feature of the game is that it is played in an anti-cafe. Yes, it is in those establishments where there is no standard food and drinks and you can bring everything with you. However, for this kind of event, ordinary cafes or clubs are also suitable, where everyone can accommodate.
Another feature of the event is that the winning team receives a purely symbolic prize. It can be a specially designed bottle of champagne or a figurine with branding. There is absolutely no need to spend money on a prize, which makes the business even more profitable.
Particular attention should be paid to the city. Brainstorm Franchise currently operates in 51 cities. Project participants can be settlements with a population of over 50,000 people.
But of course, one cannot fail to mention such a factor as periodicity. If your city has a potential audience and many people who want it, then games can be held at least every week. Just be sure to keep in mind that often the holding can simply get bored and the number of the public will decrease, so do not abuse it.
How much money is needed to start intellectual games
When organizing any business, it is very important to correctly calculate its financial side. So if you want make money on Mozgoboyne, First of all, you will have to purchase a franchise and rent a hall. In addition to the lump-sum fee for the franchisee, a monthly fee and a certain percentage of the proceeds are provided. The cost of a franchise depends on the city and can vary from 50 to 100,000 rubles.
Additional subscription fee and deductions (per month) are:
- For cities with a population of less than 250 thousand - 60 euros and 10% of the revenue.
- For cities with a population of more than 500 thousand - 75 euros and 10% of the revenue.
The cost of the game for one person is on average 300 rubles.
As an example, consider an event with 100 people: 100 * 300 = 30,000 rubles per game.
From this amount you must subtract:
- Expenses for renting the premises.
- Service staff salary.
- Equipment rental costs.
- Advertising.
- Prize.
- Taxes.
- Franchise payments.
How much can you earn on holding intellectual games
The payback of the business is from 2 to 6 months, and in six months you will be able to reach a profit of 298 rubles per month (for a city with a population of 100-250 thousand people).
It is definitely worth mentioning that you can simply abolish several expenses. It is enough just to describe all the advantages to the owner of the establishment, and it is quite likely that, realizing that during the game, people will place orders, he will provide the premises for free. In addition, you will have to spend money on advertising only for the first few months, because then word of mouth will do everything for you.
Game Features
Brainstorm consists of 7 rounds, in each of which players are asked 7 questions. Each of the stages has its own characteristics, namely:
- Rounds 1,4,6 are text questions in which players are asked to guess the meaning of a term, complete quotes, guess an event, or the like.
- Round 2 - you need to be well versed in current news and guess recent events.
- Round 3 - based on music, where you need to guess the artist or song from a fragment of the work.
- Round 5 - at this stage, players are offered various images, on the basis of which you need to determine who or what is shown in the picture or other features.
Participants have approximately 60 seconds to answer each question. At the end of the stage, all questions are repeated and after that the answers are given to the organizers.
Final round 7 - Blitz-Round. It includes 7 questions, which are given 15 seconds to think about. At this stage, the team independently determines the price of each question. The maximum score is 14 and the minimum is 1. In total, the game will take about 2.5 hours.
Franchise from Brainstorm
The game itself works exclusively on the principle of a franchise, so, alas, it will not be possible to organize it without acquiring rights. If you decide to run your event under the same name without buying a franchise, you could face litigation and a pretty hefty fine.
The purchase allows you to start in 3 weeks. In addition, it carries a number of advantages:
- Fast payback.
- High profitability.
- Payment holidays.
- Known name.
By purchasing franchise from the Brainstormer, you essentially get a ready-made business project, for the implementation of which it is enough to make minimal efforts.
Brainstorm - is rapidly gaining popularity among a wide segment of the public, so in order not to miss excellent opportunity to earn money, you should think about holding games in your city today.
I stop being surprised and start to enjoy everything that happens to me thanks to the blog.
Last week in Minsk I was lucky to see Marina mari_kondrateva (but I’ll talk about this later) and even hang out in a blogging company at a large-scale Mozgoboyni party at the invitation of Zhenya coffee_family .
124 teams, more than 700 people and a whole hangar of intellectual emotions!
Brainstorm is an intellectual and entertaining game in the form of a quiz, invented in Minsk in 2012.
Something like our "What? Where? When?", only for friends, in a pleasant atmosphere of a bar or cafe, with a glass and with music.
This format is rather borrowed from England - for about 50 years there have been pub quiz tournaments in bars, where teams compete in guessing simple riddles in the format of a noisy party.
Brainstorm has already become international - in addition to 12 cities of Belarus, it has already been implemented abroad - the game franchise is already operating in Russia, Ukraine and Germany.
To take part in the game, you need to register your team in advance in the appropriate VK or FB group. The cost of participation is 6 rubles per person (about 200 rubles). The team can be from 5 to 10 people.
The game always takes place in cafes, bars or clubs only on weekday evenings (we were lucky - we already flew out on weekends).
Usually the game takes place at the tables in the bar, but we were at the opening of the season. The hangar was full of people!
And here is our blogging team of five people called "Okay, let's come!"
I'll tell you about the main points.
The game is divided into several rounds. The first is the simplest - text riddles (guess the term, name, supplement the fact, continue the quote). A text appears on the screen - in 100 seconds you need to guess and write the answer on the card. We guessed everything, except for one, which we also guessed, but at the last moment we entered another option.
There were also questions under the auspices of "hot news" - a digest of past events is collected, you need to guess which event is meant.
After 100 seconds, you must hand over the round answer sheet to the organizers. The correct answers are announced (usually the most fun moment in each round), points are calculated and the results table is announced. And so after each round.
No encyclopedic knowledge is required in this game. All answers are taken by ingenuity, logic, ordinary knowledge from life.
Further - more difficult. Music round. You need to guess the artist or group by the song. Among the mysteries was one composition of the Belarusian group, frankly unknown to us, and a club track that we heard for the first time. And shazaming, like googling, is a rather bad form in such a game.
The visual questions were tricky too. Find out the author of the picture by a small fragment or a person by the eyes, guess what is missing in the image. All this is not only for knowledge, but also for ingenuity. And arguing, remembering, reasoning in the stream of collective consciousness was a lot of fun!
The most annoying thing is to say the correct option, and enter another one instead. So it was with the Swallow's Nest, which was "removed" from the picture. It's funny that in the photo it is very visible.
The last round is the most dynamic. Blintz is a few questions of 15 seconds each. Answers to them can either significantly raise the team in the ranking, or vice versa - lower it to its very basement. For a correct answer they give a double point, for an incorrect one they take off points, for an empty line they are not punished with anything. So we pulled ahead by as much as 20 points!
Well, I'll show you a few simple riddles to warm up. I forgot to take difficult pictures, I had to think hard there :)
Chur not google!
It was getting dark. The working day has long ended and the inhabitants of neighboring offices have dispersed to their homes. But the friendly team of our editorial staff did not disperse, but prepared for the upcoming “Brainstorm”. The results of the last games, alas, were not encouraging - more and more often we found ourselves closer to the end of the standings, less and less - closer to the beginning.
The main thing is to turn on the logic! - our editor-in-chief said worriedly, - at the last game we didn’t guess from the photo: whose upside-down eyes are these. They answered: Kim Jong-un, but it should have been Jackie Chan! After all, it's so simple! Why would Kim Jong-un stand on his head? And Jackie Chan does all his own stunts!
And the editors delved into training tasks.
“This baron chose the motto: “Faster, higher, stronger.” The minute has gone.
Munchausen! – the answer appeared instantly.
Why? - Well, of course: he pulled himself out by the hair from somewhere and flew somewhere on the core ... - Exactly!
“The poem“ I remember a wonderful moment ”Pushkin dedicated .... - Give your last name, first name and patronymic.
We must know exactly what her name is from somewhere! – followed the logic of our friendly team. - So, maybe a wife? - What about the first name? – Anna Petrovna? - And not Arina Rodionovna? - This is not a nanny? ...
And next in line was a new question: "The African dictator Bokassa became famous as ....".
Black person? - here the editor-in-chief tapped her pencil on the coaster. That is an African-African!
Okay, but is it ironic enough that an African dictator is an African? At Mozgobojne, for example, they love paradoxical questions. - And then, maybe he was a kind person, all dictators are cruel, but he is kind? ...
“This is how the appeal to the counts and princes sounded - ....”
How can we know this? - But there is a song about Golitsyn and Obolensky ... - Are they definitely princes or counts?
It was already quite dark outside.
Let's see what we've done here, - summed up the editor-in-chief. - Baron Munchausen chose the motto: "Faster, higher, stronger." The poet dedicated the poem "I remember a wonderful moment" to Arina Petrovna Pushkina. The African dictator Bokassa became famous as a humanist... The first Soviet film about spies was called "From Russia with Love". “Flutter like a butterfly and sting like a bee,” said Nikolai Valuev. Turning to the counts and princes, they said: "Pour wine" ... Finally, the last task!
“There are ten fingers on two hands, how many fingers are on fifty hands?”
Here the opinions were divided: fifty, one thousand, five hundred ... They began to vote and got even more confused.
Let's answer this way, - the editor summed up, - two times less than a hundred! And let them try not to count! That's all for today!
And the answers?!
And the answers will be at Mozgobojne! And so that our answers are correct! Turn on the logic!
IN intellectual game Dozens of teams are already playing Brainstorm. The next Brainstorm will take place on January 24th. Registration for it is already open.
Photo by Artur Osipov
