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White Room Quiz - Wed 24 June 2020

Mi-Amigo — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 08:05:10 GMT

Welcome to

There are two White Room Quizzes each week - one on Monday and one on Wednesday.

Each White Room Quiz will have eight questions - with two questions from four categories.

The White Room Quiz is open to all members.

Those wishing to take part must pm me - @Mi-Amigo - with their answers between 12 noon today [Wednesday] and 11.59pm tomorrow [Thursday]

I hope our regular quizzers

@Cleoriff @pgn @jonsie @MI5 @OldFart @gmarkj @WispaRed7

O2 Community managers @Marjo @Martin-O2 @LukasB

and any member, who has taken part in the past or has never taken part, and new members

will join in with today`s White Room Quiz.

Today`s WRQ questions are two questions from each of these cateories

HISTORY GEOGRAPHY SPACE GAMES

TODAY`S EIGHT QUESTIONS

Q1 [HISTORY - 1] Which English King was nicknamed "Rufus"?

Q2 [GEOGRAPHY - 1] In which continent is the Gobi Desert?

Q3 [SPACE - 1] Ganymede is a moon of which planet in our solar system?

Q4 [GAMES - 1] Which indoor game was invented by British Army officers in India in 1875?

Q5 [HISTORY - 2] In which war was the Battle of Jutland?

Q6 [GEOGRAPHY - 2] Which strait links San Francisco Bay and the Pacific?

Q7 [SPACE - 2] The main asteroid belt in our solar system is between which two planets?

[correctly name both for a star; half star awarded for one correct]

Q8 [GAMES - 2] How many "tricks" make up a Grand Slam in the card game Bridge?

The White Room Quiz is open to all members of the Community.

Those who want to take part must pm [private message] me [Mi-Amigo] with their answers between 12 noon today [Wed 24 June] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thursday 25 June]

- allowing 36 hours to pm your answers.

Please do not post your answers on the thread.

The answers - and results for each player taking part - will be posted on morning of Fri 26 June.

Each member will be awarded for each correct answer. In addition, each member who gives

EIGHT correct answers SIX correct answers FOUR correct answers

will be awarded will be awarded will be awarded

SILVER THINKER BRONZE THINKER RED THINKER

THE RULES

Each member must pm [private message] their answers to me [Mi-Amigo] after 12 noon today [Wed 24 June 2020] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thurs 25 June 2020].

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Thursday 25 June will be declared void.

No googling, wiki, youtube search for answers.

The White Room Quiz is open to all members.

New members, who have recently joined the Community, and members who have not taken part before, and any, or all, of the O2 Gurus - @O2Karl @O2Jenny @O2Abigail ? - are welcome to join the "regulars" with this week`s quiz.

Please feel free to post any comments on the questions - but not the answers - on this thread.

If you have any questions about the quiz, please ask and I will reply here.

Thank you everyone for your interest and for making the quiz so popular.

I hope everyone enjoys today`s White Room Quiz.

I have tried to make this quiz a mix of easier and not-so-easy questions - and hope that all of you find the quiz fun.

@Mi-Amigo

Re: White Room Quiz - Wed 24 June 2020

O2Abigail — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 08:33:31 GMT

I personally don't think I'll be doing in for this quiz as I've looked at the questions and history and geography are definitely not my strong point but I will follow the thread and good luck to everyone who joins.

Re: White Room Quiz - Wed 24 June 2020

Mi-Amigo — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 08:44:59 GMT

Thank you for your post @O2Abigail

Each quiz has questions taken from different categories, so hopefully you`ll find something you like in a future quiz and you`ll feel like joining in...

Re: White Room Quiz - Wed 24 June 2020

O2Karl — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 08:50:46 GMT

Love this, will give this a go

Re: White Room Quiz - Wed 24 June 2020

Mi-Amigo — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 08:55:52 GMT

Thanks @O2Karl for saying you`ll be taking part

Look forward to your answers, which you must pm to me @Mi-Amigo [please don`t post on thread] at any time after 12noon today up to 11.59pm tomorrow night.

Good luck

Re: White Room Quiz - Wed 24 June 2020

Cleoriff — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 09:06:45 GMT

Mmmmm Is there a QI type question @Mi-Amigo ?

Re: White Room Quiz - Wed 24 June 2020

LukasB — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 09:09:30 GMT

@Mi-Amigo love the King questions! I am so good at them hahah

But keep the space stuff coming I actually know quite a few things

Re: White Room Quiz - Wed 24 June 2020

Mi-Amigo — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 09:11:24 GMT

@Cleoriff wrote:
Mmmmm Is there a QI type question @Mi-Amigo ?

Hi @Cleoriff

No, there is not a QI-type question [where the answer is not what what most people think] this time but a couple of questions are a little bit tricky and some might need to think about them...

Look foward to pm with your answers.

Good luck

Re: White Room Quiz - Wed 24 June 2020

Mi-Amigo — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 09:14:58 GMT

Thanks @LukasB

Be interesting to see how you get on with the King question...

As for "Space", this has been one of the most popular categories with White Room Quizzers...

Good luck.

Re: White Room Quiz - Wed 24 June 2020

MI5 — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 09:19:02 GMT

Hmmm, not a card player so need to have a wild guess at that one.....

Re: White Room Quiz - Wed 24 June 2020

Mi-Amigo — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 09:21:10 GMT

Thanks for your post @MI5

Good luck with your answers

Re: White Room Quiz - Wed 24 June 2020

Cleoriff — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 09:27:18 GMT

Ray's side of the family were known for their card playing sessions...When I first met them I thought I was in a gambling den! You name it, they played it!!

Re: White Room Quiz - Wed 24 June 2020

pgn — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 09:41:33 GMT

Tricks, yes indeed. 🤔

Re: White Room Quiz - Wed 24 June 2020

Mi-Amigo — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 11:30:38 GMT

Tricks and tricky, then @pgn ?

Look forward to pm with your answers

Good luck

Re: White Room Quiz - Wed 24 June 2020

Mi-Amigo — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 11:31:48 GMT

Thank you @MI5

pm with your eight answers received

Thank you @LukasB

pm with your eight answers received

Re: White Room Quiz - Wed 24 June 2020

Cleoriff — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 11:33:12 GMT

Sending now @Mi-Amigo as bed building this afternoon (or 'helping') then furniture removal back into newly carpeted bedroom.

In this heat. At my age. Say. No. More.

Re: White Room Quiz - Wed 24 June 2020

Mi-Amigo — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 13:09:32 GMT

Thank you @Cleoriff

pm with your eight answers received

Hope all goes well with bed building and removals... glad I`ve not got to do anything like that

Re: White Room Quiz - Wed 24 June 2020

gmarkj — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 13:37:01 GMT

Incoming!

Re: White Room Quiz - Wed 24 June 2020

Mi-Amigo — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 14:21:01 GMT

Thank you @gmarkj

pm with your eight answers received

Re: White Room Quiz - Wed 24 June 2020

pgn — Wed, 24 Jun 2020 22:21:27 GMT

Ruddy hard, this one, @Mi-Amigo - but we try ==> Incoming 👍