"What where When?" - A game broadcast on TV since the beginning of autumn back in 1975. The program was a quiz, a kind of competition between the six intellectuals and the audience. Ordinary people sent letters with "smart" questions to the TV program editor, a spinning top (a child’s yule) with an arrow pointed to a letter with a cherished task, which the players in the studio had to solve after a minute of reflection. The game went and goes up to 6 points.
Voroshilov - the legend of the television show
Since then, television has undergone considerable reforms: advertising has appeared, some programs have been replaced by others, more rated, the presenters of various television programs have come and gone. However, in “What? Where? When?” everything remained unchanged for a long time.
Vladimir Voroshilov, who invented the famous television game, was its permanent leader until the end of his life. He was the voiceover of an intellectual television quiz and, leaving, left the program, beloved by millions of people, where a confrontation of a team of six intelligent, educated people with viewers takes place. Anyone can compete with experts by asking their own question. Yes, and get a monetary incentive for this if the team of the smartest makes a mistake and answers incorrectly.
Such an innovation occurred in 1991: the game of intellectuals turned into a casino, where any participant could win money thanks to his mental abilities. Now leading "What? Where? When?" is Boris Hook - stepson V. Voroshilov.
13 sector "What? Where? When?" - asking your experts a simple question
In the winter of 2001, the game was still slightly modernized: the sponsors of the show had the right to increase the monetary gain of the questions they liked, and the 13th sector “What? Where? When?” Was introduced. The essence of the 13th cell is that absolutely anyone can ask their questions to connoisseurs of the elite club by sending it via the Internet and play with them. Of all the questions sent, which sometimes happens to be 70-80 thousand, the computer selects only one. They play it. There were cases on the air of the TV show when the tasks falling out in the 13th cell were related to the personal life of the questioner and related to his intentions, but not science: history, art or psychology. But the focus of the TV show is precisely the tasks of the intellectual level. It is not surprising that experts do not really like it when the top stops, pointing its arrow to the 13th sector.
Get closer to the viewer
Terms of participation in the intellectual television show "What? Where? When?" (13 sector): send a question to the official website of the game and wait for the draw. It’s no coincidence that the leadership of the elite club came up with the following innovation:
- To increase the rating and attract new fans. The Internet has long been an integral part of every person’s life. It has become much easier for people to write letters on the World Wide Web than in the old fashioned way. It is now simple to ask experts a question, the main thing is luck and chance.
- To familiarize society with science and self-development. To ask a question in sector 13 “What? Where? When?”, You need to work a little. Only an interesting question will receive a lot of spectator votes, and this is the main criterion for the award of monetary incentives.
Thanks to the emergence of the 13th sector, “What? Where? When?” Gained even more popularity than before.