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The White Room Thursday Quiz - 14 November 2019

Mi-Amigo — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 08:49:30 GMT

Welcome to

This week`s contestant, chosen at random by @EmilieT is

@Sy

The six questions are:

Q1 [history]: Which is the oldest university in Scotland?

Q2 [science]: Which two metals are used to make brass?

Q3 [nature]: How many wings does a mosquito have?

Q4 [words]: What is dendrology the study of?

Q5 [music]: Which song famously kept Vienna by Ultravox off the No 1 in the UK charts in 1981?

Q6 [food & drink]: Which French dish has a name which literally means "pot on fire"?

Rules:

You can only give one answer to each question.

You can answer the questions in any order - please copy and paste the question and add your answer.

You can post all of the answers together in one posts; or post one, or more, answer in several posts [as @pgn did previously]; at any time between 00.01 [one minute after midnight] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thursday] 14 November 2019. Please note: a second answer to any question cannot be given in these subsequent posts.

Any answer posted before 00.01 or after 23.59 will be declared void.

Please - no googling, Wiki, social media, Youtube in search of the answers.

The results, with the correct answers, will be posted either late on Thursday 14 November [after answers have been submitted] or on Friday morning 15 November 2019.

Each correct answer will be awarded a

If you get all six questions correct, you will be awarded the Silver Thinker

The White Room Thursday Quiz is open to all members.

Previously, contestants - inc @Cleoriff , @pgn , @gmarkj , @jezza1234 , @AnnieM - and other members - inc @EmilieT , @Anonymous , @TallTrees - have played along by making their own list of questions and seeing how many they can get right.

Everyone is invited to play along with this week`s quiz - but, please do not post your answers on the thread. You will be able to see how well you did when I give the correct answers/

Thank you for your interest and good luck @Sy

Re: The White Room Thursday Quiz - 14 November 2019

gmarkj — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 08:52:29 GMT

Good luck with those @Sy - I might get 1 if I am lucky!!

Re: The White Room Thursday Quiz - 14 November 2019

EmilieT — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 08:57:06 GMT

@Mi-Amigo Now there's one question I definitely know the answer to for once!

Good luck @Sy, a very interesting set of questions you got there

Re: The White Room Thursday Quiz - 14 November 2019

Cleoriff — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 09:10:08 GMT

Oh that's 'quite' nice . Best of luck @Sy

Re: The White Room Thursday Quiz - 14 November 2019

Sy — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 09:25:34 GMT

I suppose I best get my thinking cap on

Cheers all!

Re: The White Room Thursday Quiz - 14 November 2019

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 11:24:51 GMT

3/6 for definite

Re: The White Room Thursday Quiz - 14 November 2019

Sy — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 09:22:02 GMT

Q1 [history]: Which is the oldest university in Scotland?

I don't know a lot about Scotland history, but as stab in the dark St Andrews? As I've atleast heard of that, and I'd imagine it would be fairly early on that you'd name somthing after a saint.

Q2 [science]: Which two metals are used to make brass?

Zinc and Copper.

Q3 [nature]: How many wings does a mosquito have?

2. I've squashed enough this year to know.

Q4 [words]: What is dendrology the study of?

Something to do with trees I think if I remember rightly from all the nature programmes on TV.

Q5 [music]: Which song famously kept Vienna by Ultravox off the No 1 in the UK charts in 1981?

I don't have a clue about any of this even after I was born let alone before.

Q6 [food & drink]: Which French dish has a name which literally means "pot on fire"?

Pot means pot in French I think, so Pot au Feu I would guess. That's some sort of stew I think.

Re: The White Room Thursday Quiz - 14 November 2019

Sy — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 09:22:55 GMT

Oh I forgot about the QI question, well I hope that's the 5th one lol, else I messed up somewhere haha

Re: The White Room Thursday Quiz - 14 November 2019

Mi-Amigo — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 10:00:07 GMT

As @Sy has submitted his answers early today [thank you], I can reveal the results.

@Sy gave these answers:

Q1 [history]: Which is the oldest university in Scotland?
A1: I don't know a lot about Scotland history, but as stab in the dark St Andrews? As I've atleast heard of that, and I'd imagine it would be fairly early on that you'd name somthing after a saint.

- correct = awarded

Q2 [science]: Which two metals are used to make brass?
A2: Zinc and Copper.

- correct = awarded

Q3 [nature]: How many wings does a mosquito have?
Q3: 2. I've squashed enough this year to know.

- correct = awarded

Q4 [words]: What is dendrology the study of?
A4: Something to do with trees I think if I remember rightly from all the nature programmes on TV.

- correct = awarded

Q5 [music]: Which song famously kept Vienna by Ultravox off the No 1 in the UK charts in 1981?
A5: I don't have a clue about any of this even after I was born let alone before.

- not the QI-style question. The correct answer is Shaddap You Face by Joe Dolce.

Q6 [food & drink]: Which French dish has a name which literally means "pot on fire"?
A6: Pot means pot in French I think, so Pot au Feu I would guess. That's some sort of stew I think.

- correct = awarded This was the QI-style question - as some assume, because it`s French, that it`s Coq-au-van

@Sy got five questions correct and is awarded - just missing out on being awarded the Silver Thinker - well done

How did those who said they were playing along - @Cleoriff , @EmilieT , @gmarkj , @Anonymous - do? and did those who usually play along - @pgn , @Anonymous , @TallTrees - also play along? How many of the six questions, which you thought you knew the answer to did you get right?

Feedback and comments is welcome.

Thank you everyone for your interest and to @Sy for being this week`s contestant.

Re: The White Room Thursday Quiz - 14 November 2019

Sy — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 10:11:13 GMT

Oh that's mad! I thought I was on for 3 correct, it was only 2&3 I was certain on.

Q5 I'd never get right in a 1000 years, so only one question away but not a chance at the same time lol

Cheers @mi-amigo

Re: The White Room Thursday Quiz - 14 November 2019

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 10:11:58 GMT

Well done @Sy

I got one question correct - the St Andrews one

Thank you @Mi-Amigo for compiling The Thursday Quiz

Re: The White Room Thursday Quiz - 14 November 2019

EmilieT — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 11:17:28 GMT

Well I did have one correct in the end

Awesome work @Sy, those weren't that easy and you did great for your first Thursday Quiz!

Re: The White Room Thursday Quiz - 14 November 2019

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 12:17:22 GMT

Wow.. I was only sure of 3, but actually knew 5

Re: The White Room Thursday Quiz - 14 November 2019

Mi-Amigo — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 12:35:10 GMT

Thanks for your feedback, guys.

@Anonymous - well done on getting the Scottish university one right

@EmilieT - I guess it was the French cooking one which you knew. How did you do with the others?

@Anonymous - thank you for playing along in this your first quiz. 5 correct is brilliant. Which one, may I ask [just curious] did you have trouble with?

and, of course, again congratulations to @Sy on getting five questions correct in your first go at being the contestant.

I hope all of you will join in with the next White Room Thursday Quiz when the six questions will be chosen over the coming weekend from these categories -

Events; Geography; Space; Sport; Literature; TV Sit-coms.

If any member - whether a new member or one who has not put their name forward previously, would like to join @Cleoriff ; @pgn ; @gmarkj ; @jezza1234 ; @AnnieM ; and @Sy who have been a contestant,

as a contestant, please pm me [Mi-Amigo] your name and I will add it to the list for the draw, which will be made by @EmilieT at the beginning of next week.

Even if you are not chosen, or prefer not to be a contestant, you can still join in and play along.

Thank you everyone for playing and your support for the quiz. I hope you all continue to enjoy them.

Re: The White Room Thursday Quiz - 14 November 2019

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 12:39:30 GMT

Never heard of Dendrology @Mi-Amigo

Re: The White Room Thursday Quiz - 14 November 2019

Cleoriff — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 13:28:02 GMT

Well done @Sy . A great effort.

Funnily enough Dendrology threw me a curve ball at first! In anatomy and physiology, dendrites are nerve (neural cell pathways) and I thought 'Hells teeth, that's damn hard'...Then I remembered that they are called dendrites as they look like trees

So I'm pleased that it was far simpler than I first imagined.

Re: The White Room Thursday Quiz - 14 November 2019

Mi-Amigo — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 14:20:04 GMT

Thanks for the info @Cleoriff .

I know sometimes my questions are brain-teasers but don`t think I`d go that far - well, not in a "word" question Well done for getting it right...

Re: The White Room Thursday Quiz - 14 November 2019

pgn — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 18:55:57 GMT

The Ultravox one would have thrown me.

Pot au feu, though, is definitely not to be confounded with Coq au vin. Or Chicken Chasseur or Chicken Cacciatore (Italian), "Hunter's chicken (stew)".

Dendrology is a good one, watch out for a dendrograph - either a device for measuring changes in the dimensions of a tree trunk, OR a branching chart used in cladistics to show how far apart characteristics or species are from each other...

Re: The White Room Thursday Quiz - 14 November 2019

Mi-Amigo — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 20:18:33 GMT

Thanks @pgn for the info on dendrograph. Although I love words, I didn`t know about it being used as a term in charts...

Every day is a schoolday...

Re: The White Room Thursday Quiz - 14 November 2019

gmarkj — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 08:15:17 GMT

I would have got St Andrews and two wings but that would be it for me!