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White Room Quiz - Mon 27 July 2020

Mi-Amigo — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 07:52:24 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 @gmarkj @WispaRed7

O2 Community managers @Marjo @Martin-O2 [ @LukasB is on holday] and O2 Guru @O2Karl

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.

I hope everyone likes some, if not all, the questions in this quiz

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

WORDS MOVIES GAMES

and two ODD questions - one on FLAGS and one on CODES

Please note: there is no QI-style question [where the answer is not what most people think] this time.

Also, as some found some of the recent questions harder, four of the eight questions are classed as

"easier" in the quiz books I consulted in compiling this quiz.

TODAY`S EIGHT QUESTIONS

Q1 [WORDS - 1] What is a demonym ?

Q2 [MOVIES - 1] Which official Bond film was the first to feature Timothy Dalton as James Bond ?

Q3 [GAMES - 1] How many points is the letter "K" worth in the game of Scrabble ?

Q4 [ODD - 1: FLAGS] Which is the only country in the modern world that does NOT have a rectangular

national flag ?

Q5 [WORDS - 2] What is vexillology the study of ?

Q6 [MOVIES - 2] Which 2010 movie had the tagline

"You don`t get 500 million friends without making a few enemies" ?

Q7 [GAMES - 2] In darts, what is the highest possible score with three darts, with each dart in a different "treble" ?

Q8 [ODD - 2: CODE] What four-letter word does this spell in Morse Code:

--.- ..- .. --.. ?

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 27 July] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tuesday 28 July]

- 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 29 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 27 July 2020] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tues 28 July 2020].

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Tuesday 28 July 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, and find it fun.

Good luck, everyone

@Mi-Amigo

Re: White Room Quiz - Mon 27 July 2020

MI5 — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 07:26:28 GMT

Ouch!

Re: White Room Quiz - Mon 27 July 2020

Mi-Amigo — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 07:29:57 GMT

@MI5 wrote:
Ouch!

... to which questions @MI5 ?

Re: White Room Quiz - Mon 27 July 2020

Cleoriff — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 07:32:33 GMT

Crikey!!

The morse code one will be a complete guess as I only know the first letter!

Re: White Room Quiz - Mon 27 July 2020

Mi-Amigo — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 07:35:04 GMT

Thanks @Cleoriff for your comments...

and here was me thinking that with four "easier" questions, this one wouldn`t be so difficult...

Good luck, everyone.

Re: White Room Quiz - Mon 27 July 2020

Cleoriff — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 07:36:50 GMT

@Mi-Amigo wrote:
Thanks @Cleoriff for your comments...

and here was me thinking that with four "easier" questions, this one wouldn`t be so difficult...

Good luck, everyone.

Well I like those odd questions @Mi-Amigo even though one will be a guess

Re: White Room Quiz - Mon 27 July 2020

MI5 — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 07:40:00 GMT

@Mi-Amigo wrote:
@MI5 wrote:
Ouch!
... to which questions @MI5 ?

Morse code

Re: White Room Quiz - Mon 27 July 2020

MI5 — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 07:40:55 GMT

@Cleoriff wrote:
Crikey!!
The morse code one will be a complete guess as I only know the first letter!

I only know the second one so will be a guess too

Re: White Room Quiz - Mon 27 July 2020

MI5 — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:00:06 GMT

Boom..... Incoming rubbish

Re: White Room Quiz - Mon 27 July 2020

Cleoriff — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:07:55 GMT

And me >>>>>>>

Re: White Room Quiz - Mon 27 July 2020

Mi-Amigo — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:22:08 GMT

Thank you @MI5

pm with your eight answers received

Thank you @Cleoriff

pm with your eight answers received

Thanks guys for early response. Much appreciated.

Re: White Room Quiz - Mon 27 July 2020

Cleoriff — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:26:31 GMT

Mmmmm.

Good job I re-read TWO of the questions @Mi-Amigo ...otherwise I would have been up the creek without a paddle

Re: White Room Quiz - Mon 27 July 2020

MI5 — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:26:41 GMT

You're welcome

Re: White Room Quiz - Mon 27 July 2020

MI5 — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 11:28:15 GMT

@Cleoriff wrote:
Mmmmm.
Good job I re-read TWO of the questions @Mi-Amigo ...otherwise I would have been up the creek without a paddle

Now I'm worried

Re: White Room Quiz - Mon 27 July 2020

Marjo — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 14:34:58 GMT

@MI5 wrote:
Ouch!

I second this, but for me it's all the questions this time, they look super hard I will PM you by tomorrow afternoon after taking some time to think on these @Mi-Amigo !

Re: White Room Quiz - Mon 27 July 2020

Mi-Amigo — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 14:46:41 GMT

Thank you @Marjo

You have plenty of time to have a think... and maybe have a "light bulb" moment. As I said, four of the questions were classed in quiz books I consulted as "easier"...

Look forward to pm with your eight answers.

Re: White Room Quiz - Mon 27 July 2020

gmarkj — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 15:59:51 GMT

PM sent @Mi-Amigo...

Re: White Room Quiz - Mon 27 July 2020

jonsie — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 17:29:11 GMT

PM popping into your inbox

Re: White Room Quiz - Mon 27 July 2020

Mi-Amigo — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 17:32:22 GMT

Thank you @gmarkj

pm with your eight answers received

Thank you @jonsie

pm with your eight answers received

Re: White Room Quiz - Mon 27 July 2020

pgn — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 21:56:52 GMT

Dashed dotty last question there, @Mi-Amigo 😖😁