Biography
More than 40 years ago, an elite club of experts called "What are opened on the central television? Where? When?". Over time, the program conceived as an entertaining quiz has undergone changes and became the first intellectual casino in the world, "where every player could earn money by his own mind." The symbol of the transfer was owl, and the main musical themes made the introductory part of the symphony of Richard Strauss and the popular ringtone of the 1970s called "Ra-Ta-Ta".History of project creation
At the origins of the original television project "What? Where? When?" The Soviet theater director Vladimir Yakovlevich Voroshilov stood, which in the mid-1970s came up with the rules of home quiz and became the compiler of the first tasks for participating families.
The teams who were in their own apartments thought over the same issues of 2 rounds, and then by mounting the picture connected and went on the air. In 1976, the program moved to the studio, and participants became students of Moscow universities. At the same time, the film crew acquired a wolf and began to use the voice-over voice of the young leading Alexander Maslyakov.
Unlike the current version of the show, the players did not have time to think and performed themselves, and the rotating arrow determined not the sector with the task, and the person who had to solve it.
In 1977, in the project, visible questions, team tactics and time to think, and in Ostankino, where participants were collected once a week, Filin settled by Fomka, for many years, became the emblem and an integral attribute of the game.
As soon as the audience of the first central television program learned about the way to participate in a popular quiz, editors began to receive hundreds of letters with questions. The process of preparing issues has become time consuming, since experts checked the information and selected photos and video materials to illustrate the audience tasks. Despite this, Voroshilov and colleagues did not lower their hands, but continued to develop the program script and improve the principles and rules of the game.
By 1979, when the shooting area moved to an ancient house in the center of Moscow, the transmission appeared sponsors. Intellectuals renamed in "Corresponders" began to receive gifts provided by the Moscow Book Publishing.
Having received more space, the editors changed the format of the competition and began to invite a sufficient number of commands to the game. The participants who had the highest rating were seared behind the central round table, and the rest became around and mined their own glasses.
In the late 1980s, the organizers stopped weekly exits on the air and switched to the spring, summer, autumn and winter series of games that broadcast in real time from the hunting house of the Moscow Non-piece Garden. And since 1991, on the initiative of Vladimir Voroshilov, the main trophies of the quiz "What? Where? When?" Steel "Crystal Owl" and some amount of money.
From that moment on, the transfer received the status of an "intellectual casino", and the lead began to be called the croupier. Following the canons of Las Vegas, envelopes with questions of different price categories began to put out on the burgundy-black round game table, and the most expensive Zero sector added to the tasks of the average nominal value, which hid the tasks of sponsors leading or invited guests.
Team selection rules have also changed. Now a person who has manifested himself in an intellectual competition called "Brain Ring", and team members, once losers, left the casino and did not have the right to return to the team gain.
However, when part of the original players lost pleasure to be filmed in the show, Voroshilov abolished the rule of "death" and came up with the privilege of "red jackets", aimed at the manifestation of intellectual achievements. Later, this attribute was replaced by the title of Master of Transmission "What? Where? When?".
Thus, the club managed to maintain the attractive composition of the participants, and the program acquired new fans who have been hospitalized for this or that team. At the same time, the audience was heated with the stakes, which experts did before each launch of the Wolf, but over time, the monetary question went to the background, and the correct responses began to be rewarded with the fixed amount provided by the sponsors.
Since 2000, the traditions of musical and tea pauses have appeared in the club. Specially invited guests of the program at different times were singers Alexander Rosenbaum, Diana Arbenina, Dimash Kudaibergenov, Valery Syutkin, Philip Kirkorov and others.
Essence and rules of the game
Modern rules of the intelligent television show "What? Where? When?" Formed in the early 1990s and with the exception of some changes have been preserved until today. The meaning of the game is that the team of experts in the studio competes with the team of spectators from television screens.According to the rules before the start of the game on the table, divided into 13 black and red sectors, there are envelopes with tasks, and in the middle it is installed specifically constructed arrow top.
Further, the experts rotate an improved children's toy and for 1 minute of discussion are trying to find the right solution to the problem. After time, the captain chooses the participant who is given the right to voice the assumption of the team. After that, the lead-judge assesses the accuracy of the answer and, solving the outcome of the round, awards 1 point of one or the other side. As a result, the victory won the team, which is first picking 6 points.
At first glance, there is nothing complicated if there are no nuances that make the game exciting and unique. For example, the Blitz sector, where in one envelope contains 3 questions for 30 seconds of discussion for each, and the victory in the round is achieved only at 100% of the correct answers. And there is still a complicated option called "super-blitz", where only 1 player reflects on the solution of the triple task.
If experts are confident in themselves, they are allowed to give an early response, and in this case, the laid minute goes into the reserve and is used at the right moment along the game. And in critical situations, the team in the right to use the "Club Help" option and listen to the assumptions of members of the intellectual casino in the hall. However, in this case, the main thing is not to be mistaken and from the mass of the answers to choose the right one.
Out-of-laws are useful for solving puzzles requiring a logical approach and non-standard thinking, and for the correct response to the players it is not necessary to have special knowledge, you only need to be able to reason and allocate the main thing in 1 minute.
The fierce battles begin in the final, conducted among the strongest connoisseurs of the smart club on the eve of the new year. When the "diamond owl" and the right of participation next season costs, players are ready to pull victory from the viewers by any ways.
It was in such issues with a losing situation that the "decisive round", zeroing the intellectual battle account, is asked, and in the case of the correct response of the only player who remained at the table, bringing triumph and awards to the team. In the history of the club "What? Where? When?" This emergency measure brought a victory only 6 times. Such prominent players were able to cope with emotions, such as Rovshan Askerov, Vyacheslav Sannikov, twice Boris Levin, Alexander Lieber and Ilya Novikov.
Leading
From 1977 to 2000, the permanent leading intellectual show "What? Where? When?" There was the Creator of the transfer Vladimir Yakovlevich Voroshilov. The television director had to take this post, after his predecessor Alexander Maslyakov went to the club cheerful and resourceful.
However, in the first years, few people knew the person who belonged to the voice of the scene, who voiced the questions and endowed decisions. This was due to the fact that Voroshilov did not like in Ostankino because of the previous author's projects "auction" and "and well, guys!".
The personality of "Mr. Lead" revealed only after "What? Where? When?" He fell among the most beloved folk programs, and further development required the personal presence of Voroshilov on games with the participation of experts and television viewers.
At first, Vladimir Yakovlevich appeared at the end of each program to greet the club members and congratulate the winners, and after the televoicer transformed into the "intellectual casino," began to fulfill the duties of the croupier, which appeared behind the game table during the sector of the Zero.
Voroshilov descended into the hall and, sitting in a cozy chair, read the question in front of the camera, and then for a minute he watched the discussion and listened to the response of the team. At the end of the round, he declared an account and was again removed to the commentary cabin located in a small superstructure of a hunting house.
Shortly before the death of March 10, 2001, Voroshilov secretly handed over the post of his own Pasyanka Boris Hook. He hoped that experts and television viewers would not notice substitutions, and for some time it was because of the skill of editors, deliberately distorted the voice of a young man.
The first suspected Nelad Master of the Elite Club, Alexander Druz, who was friends with the director's family and heard the familiar junior intonations in the voice speech. The rest learned about the absence of a favorite "Mr. Croupier" only after the television announced the untimely death of Voroshilov.
The editors of the program were hard to experience loss and at some point were going to refuse to further hold games, but thanks to the support of the Director General of the First Channel Channel, Konstantin Ernst changed the decision, and the Summer Series "What? Where? When?" Fixed at the end of May 2001.
During debut programs, Boris Hook wished to save incognito, so the audience had to guess who was hiding behind the voice of Mr. Leading, but over time the young man felt confidence in his own power and now sometimes goes down to the hall and watches the final of the final and the most important episodes decisive games.
Commands of experts
During the existence of the elite club of experts, hundreds of the most intelligent representatives of different professions and nationalities became its members. However, there are people who demonstrated outstanding intelligence and become multiple owners of honorary titles and awards "What? Where? When?"In this regard, especially the bright team of Viktor Siddeva, which includes the multiple owners of the "Crystal owl" and "Diamond owls", Master of the game Alexander Druz, Maxim Potashev, Boris Levin, Leonid Timofeev and Mikhail Dyuba. Having won a number of undisputed victories in battles with TV viewers, the famous six was the legend in the world of intellectuals.
Other famous members of the club "What? Where? When?" Save the crystal clear reputation and continue to demonstrate a brilliant game.
These include the team of Ales Mukhina, in which the lion's share of the correct answers belongs to the two-time owner of the "Crystal owl" Ilya Novikova, Six of Alena Rising, where hopes are assigned to the young Yuri Filippov, and the "squad" of Balash Kasumova, consisting of Matters of Julia Lazareva, Dmitry Avdeenko and Mikhail Skipsky, Elman Talybova and Elizabeth Odeenko.
Masteries and defenders
Often, controversial issues arise during the game, and the lead you have to refer to legally savvy defenders of the interests of experts or television viewers. At various times, Mikhail Brenzhevsky, Vladimir Verkhhinsky and Konstantin Rudner, were performed this role.
In 2018, the authors of the issues began to represent the banker Dmitry Breitbiher, who, having an extraordinary facial expression and an excellent sense of humor, especially loved fans "What? Where? When?".
On the side of the members of the elite club until 2016, the director of the Communication Department of the Atomic Energy Company Sergey Novikov, but after leaving the presidential office, the Director General of Rosatoma, Alexey Evgenevich Likhachev and the head of the department, Andrei Cheremisinov, were taken to the presidential office.
At the final game of 2018, the head of one of the world's largest corporations defended the interests of Balash Kasumov's team and presented the Honorary "Crystal Atom" to the best player Elman Talybov, and the Weld of the "Diamond Owl" was the TV viewer Konstantin Bogatski.
In the story "What? Where? When?" The main prize for the year, a crystal silver statuette with rubies, established in 2000, the authors of the issues received more often than experts. Asya Shavinskaya became the best members of the elite club (2004), Boris Burda (2007), Andrei Kozlov (2008), Balash Kasumov (2010), Alexander Druz (2011), Boris Levin (2012) and Ilya Novikov (2014).
In addition, the permanent participants once in the five-year plan were awarded the honorary title of the Master of the game "What? Where? When?". In 2018, to the intellectuals Alexander Friend, Maxim Potashev, Viktor Sidnev and Andrei Kozlov, joined the first woman - Elizabeth Odeenko, brilliantly responding to questions throughout the season.
Scandals
It did not cost the elitar club and without major proceedings and scandals.
In 2016, the intellectual casino with noise left the owner of the "diamond owl" Ilya Novikov, who, according to the most expert, politely asked to leave the club for political considerations.
The essence of the conflict was that the popular Russian lawyer took to defend the Ukrainian pilot hope Savchenko accused of a complicity to the murder of Russian citizens in the Donbas. The organizers eventually proposed a player to choose between a career and "What? Where? When?". As a result, Novikov preferred a profession, and his team led by Ales Mukhin refused to continue performances without one of his best players. After some time, the Mukhin team on numerous requests returned to the table in several modified composition.
Another incident that occurred in early 2019 was hearing about the wickedness of Master Viktor Siddeva and Alexander Friend. The television editor Ilya Ber published a conversation on social networks, during which the famous old-timer club is friends allegedly trying to buy answers to the game "Who wants to become a millionaire?". Later, Alexander denied the accusations of Bera, saying that it was he who tried to "bring to clean water" a dishonest editor.
Although the experts officially did not accuse them, by decision of the editorial office, they were deprived of the right to participate in intellectual show.