Intellect-game
“What? Where? When?”
Ukrainian Academy Of Banking
Question 0
In today's society mystical problems
can easily turn into real economic
ones. For example, on this day,
many people usually try to reduce
their activity. Studies show that this
can result in huge losses in the
economies of different countries,
e.g. in the US only they amount to
800-900 million dollars.
Name this day.
Q-n 0: ANSWER
Friday the
13th.
Round 1
Question 1
The 2005 Nobel Prize Winner Robert
Aumann claims that THIS is pure
Mathematics and Logics. The 2002
Nobel Prize winner Daniel Cahneman
says that THIS is based on Psychology.
What field of science did both
researchers have in mind?
Q-n 1: ANSWER
Economics
Comments:
both scientists were Nobel Prize
winners in Economics
Question 2
Clients of this company once
ironically brought an egg,
some flour, sugar and butter
to the jubilee party of the
company. Name this
company.
Q-n 2: ANSWER
IKEA
COMMENTS:
Ikea is famous for producing the furniture
that customers should assemble on their
own. The authors of the greeting suggested
that the company should put together the
cake out of these ingredients on their own.
Question 3
Which three letters have been
removed from the logo of the
company that deals with designing
fonts?
Q-n 3: ANSWER
Ele
COMMENTS:
the empty space inside letter “e” looks very much
like part of elephant’s trunk.
Question 4
Electrolux, a Swedish company,
is currently designing THIS with
the installed web-camera. The
camera helps the owner of THIS
to look into it from any
computer or even a mobile
phone with internet connection.
Name THIS.
Q-n 4: ANSWER
Refrigerator
COMMENTS:
Electrolux is a famous consumer electronics producer. This
technology enables you to see what you have in your fridge
and what you need to buy.
Question 5
What, according to an
English idiom, one should
do like a king, what – like a
prince, and what – like a
pauper? Write these in the
correct order.
Q-n 5: ANSWER
to have breakfast,
lunch and dinner
COMMENTS:
 an English variation on the Russian saying “Give your
dinner to the enemy”.
 Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner
like a pauper.
Question 6
In 2012 the National Bank of Belarus
issued a series of coins. The series
has one coin made of 999-fineness
gold and eight coins made of 925fineness silver. The name of this
series consists of two words that
start with the same letter. What are
these words?
Q-n 6: ANSWER
Solar System
COMMENTS:
the coin made of gold is the symbol of the Sun.
Question 7
The survey conducted by
UNESCO shows that each
African lion annually brings its
country the income worth
$27,000, while the contribution
of an elephants family equals
$610,000. How do these animals
raise their countries’ wealth?
Q-n 7: ANSWER
they attract
tourists
Question 8
The EURO-2000 organizers
proudly announced financial
results of the campaign: this
appeared to be the first
football championship that
brought … . What exactly did
it bring?
Q-n 8: ANSWER
PROFIT
Question 9
In 1969 Chemical Bank placed
the following newspaper
advertisement: “The Bank’s
Long Island branch is opening
its doors on September 3rd
1969 and is never going to
close them”. What did that
advertisement promote?
Q-n 9: ANSWER
ATM
COMMENTS:
The advertisement was placed on the occasion of installing
the first ATM.
Question 10
The system that is widely used
to rank banks includes the
following criteria: capital
adequacy, asset quality,
management, earnings,
liquidity. What is the name of
this rating system?
Q-n 10: ANSWER
CAMEL
COMMENTS:
This rating system is called CAMEL following the
first letters of the criteria names:
Capital Adeguacy — достаточность капитала
Asset Quality — качество активов
Management — менеджмент
Earnings — доходность
Liguidity — ликвидность
Round 2
Question 11
Philip, the father of Alexander
the Great, was a wise military
commander. He once said:
"No city walls are so strong
that they cannot be breached
if you can get a donkey load of
…...". WHAT?
Q-n 11: ANSWER
Gold
Question 12
According to Wikipedia, the first
THIS appeared in 1947 at Shannon
Airport in Ireland, where the
transatlantic airplanes stopped
for some time to refuel. The
world’s biggest modern THIS is
nowadays in Dubai. Name THIS.
Q-n 12: ANSWER
Duty-free shop
COMMENTS:
Passengers at Shannon Airport had a lot of free time they
could spend going shopping. In the same way, nowadays
Dubai airport is a large transfer hub.
Question 13
Name the country,
where, according to
“Around the World”
journal, recipes of
chocolate are kept in
bank safes.
Q-n 13: ANSWER
Switzerland
COMMENTS:
This country is known for its
chocolate and banks.
Question 14
In 1700 there were more than 2000
places of this kind in London. Some of
them gave birth to such firms as Lloyd,
London Shipping Exchange and East India
Company. However, at a later date these
places lost their significance because the
price of import from the colonial
territories of France, Portugal and
Holland got too high. This was the import
of WHAT?
Q-n 14: ANSWER
Coffee beans
Comments:
These places are coffee houses. English
people started to use tea which they
bought from the Chinese in exchange
for India-grown opium.
Question 15
Harvey Ball says that it took him no
more than 10 minutes to invent THIS.
Now the only thing we can do is smile
when we learn that he earned just $45
for inventing THIS. After a short time
period THIS became very popular, and
the United States postal service even
issued a stamp with THIS. You have one
minute to draw THIS.
Q-n 15: ANSWER
:)
Comments:
The designer is a commercial artist
Harvey Ball. “Smiley” comes from
the English word “smile”.
Question 16
A Russian export firm unsuccessfully
translated its name into English. As a
result, for English-speaking people the
name of this firm means that it does
not deal with export. What actually did
this firm export?
Q-n 16: ANSWER
Wood / timber.
COMMENTS:
"Экспортлес" became "Exportless", which means “without
export”. Philologist Svetlana Ter-Minasova gives this as an
example of a language nonsense caused by poor command of a
foreign language.
Question 17
What, according to
Vidal Sassoon,
is the only place
where profit comes
before work?
Q-n 17: ANSWER
Dictionary
Question 18
A popular saying jokingly claims that
those people who are-early-to-bedand-early-to-rise are larks, while
those who are late-to-bed-and-lateto-rise type are owls. What do we call
a late-to-bed-and-early-to-rise type?
This type became very popular in
2009. Its name is made up of two
words.
Q-n 18: ANSWER
Angry bird
COMMENTS:
This goes back to a puzzle video game developed by a Finnish
"Rovio Mobile" company, where players use a slingshot to
launch birds at pigs stationed in or around various structures
with the goal of destroying all the pigs on the playing field.
Question 19
doublet
One of the “Sony” founders Akio
Morita wrote a book of his
memories called “…”. What is the
name of this book? There are three
words in it.
There is a joke that God created
heaven and earth. All the rest is … .
Fill in the gap with three words.
Q-n 19: ANSWER
1. Made in Japan.
2. Made in China.
COMMENTS:
Traditionally, goods made in Japan are known to be highquality, while goods made in China are considered massmarket products with doubtful quality: nowadays China
seems to produce goods of any possible type.
Question 20
The team of
shop.novafilm.tv website
created a slogan by
replacing just two letters
in the famous brand
name, thus turning this
name into an appeal.
Which two letters were
replaced and are hidden
in the picture?
Q-n 20: ANSWER
"Star wars"
was changed
into "Stop
wars"