Popular TV game "What? Where? When?" originates in 1975. Over the long period of its existence, the game has undergone many changes, but its principle and rules have remained the same.
Game birth
The birthday of this television game falls on September 4, 1975. Previously, the program was positioned as a family quiz. Two families competed on the air, each of which had to answer 11 questions. The shooting took place in two different places: first in the apartment of one family, then in another. The art of editing helped to reunite the two pictures into a single program. After a year of the existence of the game, it has changed. "What? Where? When?" became a youth club. Students from different faculties of Moscow State University acted as players. Each played for himself, the spinning top pointed to a player who should answer the question of the viewers. There were no minutes of discussion or reflection, the answer had to be given immediately. Researchers, honorary academics were invited to evaluate the answers.
In the early years of the television game, only a few programs were filmed per year.
Game changes
In 1997, the game again acquired new colors. Now the viewer did not see the presenter, but only his voice was heard. There was a minute of discussion, and the spinning top did not point to the player, but to a letter from the viewer. There is a tradition to award prizes for the best question. And for each correct answer, the team received a book. Since then, Vladimir Voroshilov has become the main host of the game.
Voroshilov was called incognito Ostankino, because only his voice was familiar to viewers, no one saw the host himself in the frame.
Lead change
Global change came into transmission after the death of its permanent leader. His place was taken by Boris Hook. For a long time, the viewer did not know the name of the presenter, because his voice was processed on a computer. In 2001, an experimental series of games was held. No one knew if she would have demand and rating after the change of lead. But everything went well. Boris Hook made a lot of adjustments to the course of the game. In 2002, 4 series of games were played for the first time: summer, autumn, spring, winter. The broadcast began to broadcast not on Saturday, as it was earlier, but on Friday. In each series, the first three qualifiers. If the team is selected in the spring series, then it gets into the final of the summer series and so on.
