Let’s celebrate singles day?

The bachelor’s holiday, which falls on August 7, was not invented in our country, and indeed not in Europe. But the Old World adopted the tradition – fortunately, everywhere there are many citizens who are not bound by marriage. However, family people are not forbidden to take part in this survey.

1. In which country of the world did the Singles Day appear, which, however, is celebrated there on November 11?

A) in Japan

B) in China

C) in India

2. What adjective in relation to the word “bachelor” became widespread in Russia only in the 19th century?

A) old

B) latent

C) virtual

3. What does a real bachelor do before eating, according to a joke statement on a holiday card?

A) drinks one hundred grams

B) washes the dishes

C) standing on his head

4. What is most often arranged on Singles Day in restaurants and cafes?

A) discounts upon presentation of a passport with no marriage stamp

B) cooking contests for bachelors

C) blind dates

5. What phrase can indicate an unmarried person?

A) blank cartridge

B) blank shot

C) idling

6. Which bachelors in the USSR did not pay the childlessness tax, which was levied from November 1941 to January 1992?

A) deputies of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR

B) astronauts

C) monks

7. What genre is represented by the picture of the artist Konstantin Grachev “Bachelor’s Breakfast”, depicting a frying pan with scrambled eggs, onions and bread?

A) portrait

B) landscape

C) still life

8. Which of the actors played in the comedy “The Diamond Arm” a character who says the phrase “There is no husband who has not dreamed of becoming a bachelor for at least an hour”?

A) Anatoly Papanov

B) Andrey Mironov

C) Yuri Nikulin

9. What word is missing in the title of Mikhail Grigoriev’s film “They lived … a bachelor”?

A) two

B) three

C) four

10. What is the name of the song in which there is a line “Our bachelor trailer creaks from the wind at night”?

A) “Oil Kings”

B) “Dirty scammers”

C) “Blue Berets”

Right answers

1 V

In China, where a birth control program was adopted, in the late 1990s, Singles’ Day appeared, which is celebrated annually on November 11th.

2 A

In Russia, they married early, and the concept of “old bachelor” was not in use until the 19th century. Other adjectives given came into wide use later.

3 V

It was meant that a bachelor washes dishes at the last moment out of great necessity.

4 C

Most often, blind dates are arranged in restaurants and cafes to help a bachelor find a mate.

5 A

One of the meanings of the word “patron” is the owner of an enterprise, a company.

6 C

Exempted from contributions to the budget for childlessness in the Soviet Union were only monks who were required to observe the vow of celibacy.

7 C

Still life is a genre in the visual arts dedicated to depicting close-ups of inanimate objects.

8 A

This phrase in the film is said by Lyolik, played by Anatoly Papanov. By the way, Anatoly Dmitrievich died on August 7 …

9 V

Mikhail Grigoriev’s film “Three Bachelors” was released in 1973.

10 A

The verse of the song “Oil Kings”, which was performed by Iosif Kobzon, the group “Otpetye swindlers” and others, sounds like this:

Our bachelor trailer creaks from the wind at night,

Quietly in dreams he floats away and is lost in the distance.

And the taiga is afraid even to inadvertently crackle with a branch,

To sleep until dawn oil kings.

Your score

0 – 3. The topic of bachelor life is alien to you, and there is no need to delve into its features. Most likely, for you, this is a long-passed stage.

4 – 7. Probably, in your environment there are inveterate bachelors whose fate is not indifferent to you. But you don’t have to try on the title of “lonely heart”.

8 – 10. You belong to the category of the population for which official or even civil marriage is not relevant. Hence the deep knowledge in the matter.

In the photo – a frame from the film “There Lived Three Bachelors” (dir. M. Grigoriev, 1973)