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White Room Quiz - Monday 29 June 2020

Mi-Amigo — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 07:16:31 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 [Monday] and 11.59pm tomorrow [Tuesday]

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

PLACES SCIENCE WORDS EVENTS

and one question [I`m not saying which] is a QI-style question, where the answer is not what most people think

TODAY`S EIGHT QUESTIONS

Q1 [PLACES - 1] Which country is landlocked by Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina?

Q2 [SCIENCE - 1: CHEMISTRY] "Be" is the chemical symbol for which element?

Q3 [WORDS - 1] Nephology is the study of what?

Q4 [EVENTS - 1] Crystal is the traditional gift for which wedding anniversary?

Q5 [PLACES - 2] Which is the oldest National Park in the USA?

Q6 [SCIENCE - 2: BIOLOGY] Otitis affects which part of the human body?

Q7 [WORDS - 2] What does the word "hirsute" mean ?

Q8 [EVENTS - 2] If it rains on St Swithen`s Day, it is said to then rain for 40 days;

but when [what date] is St Swithen`s Day?

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 [Mon 29 June] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tuesday 30 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 Wed 01 July.

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 [Mon 29 June 2020] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tues 30 June 2020].

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Tuesday 30 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, 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, including one QI-style question

and I hope that all of you will enjoy theis quiz and find it fun.

Good luck, everyone

@Mi-Amigo

Re: White Room Quiz - Monday 29 June 2020

MI5 — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 07:22:44 GMT

A couple of those will need some thought or lucky guesses

Re: White Room Quiz - Monday 29 June 2020

Mi-Amigo — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 07:28:17 GMT

Thank you for your post @MI5

I hope you like the mix of questions - even if one is a QI-style and a couple are not quite so easy.

Look forward to pm with your answers any time after 12 noon today

Re: White Room Quiz - Monday 29 June 2020

Cleoriff — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 07:43:39 GMT

Mmmmm...

One of the questions. Do I ask if there is a spelling mistake, or do I not? That is the question

Re: White Room Quiz - Monday 29 June 2020

Mi-Amigo — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 07:52:19 GMT

@Cleoriff wrote:
Mmmmm...
One of the questions. Do I ask if there is a spelling mistake, or do I not? That is the question

@Cleoriff .....

Re: White Room Quiz - Monday 29 June 2020

Cleoriff — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 11:55:45 GMT

PM sent @Mi-Amigo

Re: White Room Quiz - Monday 29 June 2020

gmarkj — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 12:13:13 GMT

PM Sent.
Some of those challenged the old grey matter.
And some I was grateful for my daughters library!

Re: White Room Quiz - Monday 29 June 2020

MI5 — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 12:23:28 GMT

Incoming and ignored spelling none mistake

Re: White Room Quiz - Monday 29 June 2020

Cleoriff — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 12:37:43 GMT

@MI5 wrote:
Incoming and ignored spelling none mistake

Yes...so did I.

Can't work out the QI type question though.... which worries me a bit

Re: White Room Quiz - Monday 29 June 2020

MI5 — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 12:41:09 GMT

@Cleoriff wrote:
Can't work out the QI type question though.... which worries me a bit

Same here

Re: White Room Quiz - Monday 29 June 2020

Mi-Amigo — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 13:08:11 GMT

Thank you @Cleoriff

pm with your eight answers received

Thank you @MI5

pm with your eight answers received

Thank you @gmarkj

pm with your eight answers received

as for which is the QI-style question, I`ll reveal that with answers and results on Wed morning....

Re: White Room Quiz - Monday 29 June 2020

MI5 — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 13:08:55 GMT

@Mi-Amigo wrote:

as for which is the QI-style question, I`ll reveal that with answers and results on Wed morning....

Pffft

Re: White Room Quiz - Monday 29 June 2020

Cleoriff — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 13:15:16 GMT

Even bigger Pffftttttt!!

Re: White Room Quiz - Monday 29 June 2020

pgn — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 17:32:49 GMT

Hmm. A hair's breadth off a serious bout of omphaloskepsis this time, @Mi-Amigo.

Re: White Room Quiz - Monday 29 June 2020

Cleoriff — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 17:48:54 GMT

@pgn wrote:
Hmm. A hair's breadth off a serious bout of omphaloskepsis this time, @Mi-Amigo.

Oh get out of it Wordy McWordface

Re: White Room Quiz - Monday 29 June 2020

Mi-Amigo — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 18:22:49 GMT

@pgn wrote:
Hmm. A hair's breadth off a serious bout of omphaloskepsis this time, @Mi-Amigo.

err, if you say so @pgn

look forward to your pm with your eight answers...

Re: White Room Quiz - Monday 29 June 2020

pgn — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 18:59:43 GMT

@Cleoriff wrote:
@pgn wrote:
Hmm. A hair's breadth off a serious bout of omphaloskepsis this time, @Mi-Amigo.
Oh get out of it Wordy McWordface

Er... Don'cha mean "naff orf", @Cleoriff?

T'is the art of navel-gazing.

Re: White Room Quiz - Monday 29 June 2020

pgn — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 19:00:56 GMT

Incoming shortly, @Mi-Amigo -->>>

Re: White Room Quiz - Monday 29 June 2020

Mi-Amigo — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 19:04:23 GMT

@pgn wrote:
T'is the art of navel-gazing.

not the same as naval-gazing which is looking at sailors

Re: White Room Quiz - Monday 29 June 2020

Mi-Amigo — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 19:19:44 GMT

Thank you @pgn

pm with your eight answers received