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White Room Quiz Wed 09 Dec 2020

Mi-Amigo — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 10:06:48 GMT

Welcome to

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

Today`s White Room Quiz is eight questions with two questions from each of four categories

PLACES NATURE LITERATURE TV

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 @gmarkj @Anonymous

and O2 Community managers @Marjo @Martin-O2 @LukasB

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

will join in with today`s White Room Quiz.

Please note: there is one QI-style question in which the answer is not what most people think.

TODAY`S EIGHT QUESTIONS

Q1 PLACES 1 What was the name of the Russian city Stalingrad changed to in 1961?

Q2 NATURE 1 What type of bird is a teal?

Q3 LITERATURE 1 In which book by Mark Twain did the character Huckleberry Finn first appear?

Q4 TV 1 What is the address of Wallace and Gromit in the TV animations?

Q5 PLACES 2 Komodo National Park, famous for Komodo Dragons, is in which country?

Q6 NATURE 2 What is the gestation period [in days] of a tigress?

Q7 LITERATURE 2 Who wrote the science fiction novel "The Midwich Cuckoo"?

Q8 TV 2 What was the original title which Tony Warren gave to his ITV soap drama, which was changed

to Coronation Street before it was first broadcast?

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 09 December] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thursday 10 December]

- 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 11 December

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 09 December 2020] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thursday 10 December 2020].

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Thursday 10 December 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.

I hope everyone likes the questions in today`s White Room Quiz, and finds this WRQ fun.

Good luck, everyone

@Mi-Amigo

Re: White Room Quiz Wed 09 Dec 2020

pgn — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 09:30:37 GMT

Hmm... Gestation periods and Cuckoos - interesting synergies today, @Mi-Amigo

Now off to gestate a while 😉

Re: White Room Quiz Wed 09 Dec 2020

Mi-Amigo — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 09:39:55 GMT

@pgn wrote:
Hmm... Gestation periods and Cuckoos - interesting synergies today, @Mi-Amigo
Now off to gestate a while 😉

Something to test everyone`s little grey matter @pgn ?

Re: White Room Quiz Wed 09 Dec 2020

Cleoriff — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 09:40:05 GMT

That's a nice quiz @Mi-Amigo (says she hopefully)

Re: White Room Quiz Wed 09 Dec 2020

Mi-Amigo — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 09:55:14 GMT

@Cleoriff wrote:
That's a nice quiz @Mi-Amigo (says she hopefully)

Ahhh. Thank you @Cleoriff

Good to hear you think this is a "nice quiz".

Good luck. Look forward to pm with your eight answers any time after 12 noon today.

Re: White Room Quiz Wed 09 Dec 2020

Cleoriff — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 13:30:14 GMT

Pm incoming @Mi-Amigo

Re: White Room Quiz Wed 09 Dec 2020

Mi-Amigo — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 14:11:38 GMT

Thank you @Cleoriff

Beautiful images of the tigress and the cubs - I love tigers

pm with your eight answers received

Re: White Room Quiz Wed 09 Dec 2020

gmarkj — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 16:13:21 GMT

Pm sent @Mi-Amigo...

Re: White Room Quiz Wed 09 Dec 2020

jonsie — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 17:20:29 GMT

Incoming

Re: White Room Quiz Wed 09 Dec 2020

Mi-Amigo — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 19:03:34 GMT

Thank you @gmarkj

pm with your eight answers received

Thank you @jonsie

can`t say I actually love the gif [that poor woman] - but it did make me smile

pm with your eight answers received

Re: White Room Quiz Wed 09 Dec 2020

MI5 — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 19:11:04 GMT

I'm on it now.....

Re: White Room Quiz Wed 09 Dec 2020

MI5 — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 19:19:56 GMT

@Mi-Amigo

Can I just check for Q1.

Do you want the previous name of Stalingrad or the current name?

Re: White Room Quiz Wed 09 Dec 2020

Mi-Amigo — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 19:29:26 GMT

@MI5 wrote:
@Mi-Amigo
Can I just check for Q1.
Do you want the previous name of Stalingrad or the current name?

Thanks for the question.

To clarify, I`m not looking for the previous name of Stalingrad but the name it was changed to in 1961.

Re: White Room Quiz Wed 09 Dec 2020

MI5 — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 19:30:30 GMT

Thank you

Re: White Room Quiz Wed 09 Dec 2020

Mi-Amigo — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 19:41:07 GMT

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Re: White Room Quiz Wed 09 Dec 2020

MI5 — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 19:39:57 GMT

Re: White Room Quiz Wed 09 Dec 2020

Mi-Amigo — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 19:42:00 GMT

Thank you @MI5

I like the gif

pm with your eight answers received

Re: White Room Quiz Wed 09 Dec 2020

pgn — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 21:29:11 GMT

This gif reflects the perceived degree of cuckoo-ness on this particular WRQ quiz, and the fact that knowing the gestation period of your average tiger is about as likely for me as knowing the airspeed velocity of a (European) unladen swallow... so this is for @Cleoriff, probably one of the few among the crew who might, possibly, know the answer

And be able to say how many movies are represented below, including their names

Incoming, @Mi-Amigo --->>

PS - lay off the egg-nog

Re: White Room Quiz Wed 09 Dec 2020

MI5 — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 21:26:29 GMT

Just do like me and guess

Re: White Room Quiz Wed 09 Dec 2020

Cleoriff — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 21:33:26 GMT

@pgn wrote:
This gif reflects the perceived degree of cuckoo-ness on this particular WRQ quiz, and the fact that knowing the gestation period of your average tiger is about as likely for me as knowing the airspeed velocity of a (European) unladen swallow... so this is for @Cleoriff, probably one of the few among the crew who might, possibly, know the answer
And be able to say how many movies are represented below, including their names
Incoming, @Mi-Amigo --->>
PS - lay off the egg-nog

What an excellent gif @pgn Oh and yes, I think I do know the answer about tigers. If you watch every Big Cat programme going, some facts do stick in your mind....(I hope)