Many viewers wondered about the solution.
On the show “What? Where? When?” Experts have repeatedly found answers to the most complex and confusing questions. But in 1997, they lost 5 million rubles due to an incorrect answer to what seemed like the simplest question. It is surprising that such erudite people could not find the right solution.
Everyone knows the scene in the comedy “The Diamond Arm”, when Yuri Nikulin’s character goes on stage and sings that very song about the hares who mowed the mysterious “tryn-grass” in the night field. Many spectators wondered what that very grass was. And the fan “What? Where? When?” I decided to puzzle the experts with this question.
There were many versions: cabbage, hemp, quinoa, sedge. Alexey Lunin, who was entrusted with voicing the answer, suggested that “tryn-grass” meant fern.
In fact, this was the name for the garbage left after mowing. That is, the remains of the grass that has already been mowed. In other words, the hares from Nikulin’s song were doing useless work in the field. The experts were wrong, and the spectator from Krasnoyarsk became 5 million richer.
