Welcome to the official homepage of Russian "What?Where?When?" Club at the University of Illinois at Chicago!

This is the official mascot of our club - Great Horned Owl, Bubo virginianus. The Owl is a symbol of wisdom, that was adopted by the TV show "Chto?Gde?Kogda?" ("What?Where?When?") in the Soviet Union, which has, since 1975, been one of the most popular shows. People from all over the Union would send their questions to test the extent of general knowledge and logical thinking of those chosen six omniscient people - a team, which dared to answer any question, however tricky and obscure, in just 60 seconds. A spinning top with a toy horse inside was a kind of roulette - the letters, surrounding it, could contain a question of any level of difficulty, including the "Blitz" - when 3 questions had to be answered in just 1 minute. All depended on where the horse would stop. This game, combining both excitement of gambling and intellectual quest with time, attracted many people - many more that the TV-show format could accomodate. So people started playing it, just as people played Trivia and College Bowl - in tournaments, which included many teams, and this movement has spread to many cities, in Russia, and abroad - and now, it is played here. Here is the information on the Club in UIC, as well as our counterparts in other Universities in the United States, as well as on Internet.

News

Our Club is stil in the process of forming. However, the weekly games of "Chto?Gde?Kogda?" ("What?Where?When?") are held regularly. For the next scheduled game check our Homepage in Russian - transliterated.

We also have created an improvizational comedy team, and there are national, as well as international (in Moscow) championships for the Russian-speaking amateur actors who call themselves "The Club of the Cheerful and the Resourceful" (the Russian acronym of these 3 words is KVN ("Klub veseolyh i nahodchivyh") or KBH!!!!!

November 1st, 1997:

The Club has celebrated the bright holliday of HALLOWEEN.

I have included some of the questions we play on "What?Where?When?" in English translation. They are taken from the 1997 Spector Cup II tournament of our Club.

View the questions

You can e-mail the President of the Club, Dmitriy Shchepin,

our Treasurer, Anatoly Mayburd,

and, finally, the Secretary, and the youngest member of our club, Semen Khazin.

Our faculty advisor is Dr. Raisa Dolgina, Clinical Specialist in the Department of Urology - College of Medicine at UIC.

Here is our Constitution.