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White Room Quiz Mon 17 Feb 2025

Mi-Amigo — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:53:02 GMT

Welcome to

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

Today`s WRQ is 8 questions, with 2 questions on each of these categories:

PLACES SCIENCE WORDS FOOD & DRINK

The White Room Quiz is open to all members.

Those wishing to take part must pm me - @Mi-Amigo - their answers between 12 noon today [Mon] and

03.00am Wednesday morning.

Please do not post your answers on the thread.

I hope our regular quizzers

@Cleoriff @pgn @gmarkj @jonsie @MI5 @TallTrees @BobM @Oxonian @Dave-O2

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.

TODAY`S EIGHT QUESTIONS

Q1 PLACES 1 - What was the name of the "Lost City" in Jordan, built in 312BCE ?

Q2 SCIENCE 1 - Gregor Mendel discovered the laws of inheritance by experiments on what plants ?

Q3 WORDS 1 - "cly", mentioned in 1736 dictionary, referred to what ?

Q4 FOOD & DRINK 1 - Turk`s turban is a variety of which foodstuff ?

Q5 PLACES 2 - Yaounde is the capital city of which country ?

Q6 SCIENCE 2 - Where is the human body of babies is the fontanelle ?

Q7 WORDS 2 - "grannam", mentioned in 1736 dictionary, referred to which crop ?

Q8 FOOD & DRINK 2 - Persian apple is the former Roman name for which fruit ?

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

Each member must pm [private message] their answers to me [Mi-Amigo] after 12 noon today [Mon 17 Feb 2025] and before 03.00am Wed 19 Feb 2025.

Please do not post your answers on the thread.

The answers - and results for each player taking part - will be posted on Wed 19 Feb 2025.

Each member will be awarded for each correct answer. In addition, Thinkers will be awarded as follows

THE RULES

Each member must pm [private message] their answers to me Mi-Amigo after 12 noon today [Mon 17 Feb

2025] and before 03.00am on Wed 19 Feb 2025.

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 03.00am on Wed 19 Feb 2025 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.

Re: White Room Quiz Mon 17 Feb 2025

Oxonian — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:12:42 GMT

My entry should be awaiting your perusal @Mi-Amigo ; thank you for organising. 👍

Re: White Room Quiz Mon 17 Feb 2025

jonsie — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:05:56 GMT

On it's way @Mi-Amigo ---->>

Re: White Room Quiz Mon 17 Feb 2025

pgn — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:45:52 GMT

Incoming, @Mi-Amigo -->

Re: White Room Quiz Mon 17 Feb 2025

Cleoriff — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 21:49:16 GMT

Incoming @Mi-Amigo

Re: White Room Quiz Mon 17 Feb 2025

Mi-Amigo — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 07:22:27 GMT

Thank you @MI5

pm with your answers received

Thank you @Oxonian

pm with your answers received

Thank you @jonsie

like the gif

pm with your answers received

Thank you @pgn

like the gif

pm with your answers received

Thank you @Cleoriff

like the gif

pm with your answers received

Re: White Room Quiz Mon 17 Feb 2025

Dave-O2 — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:09:50 GMT

Answers in your inbox @Mi-Amigo 😁

Re: White Room Quiz Mon 17 Feb 2025

Mi-Amigo — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 16:06:22 GMT

Thank you @Dave-O2

like the gif

pm with your answers received

Re: White Room Quiz Mon 17 Feb 2025

gmarkj — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 17:18:42 GMT

Not sure this will get a very high score, but let's see.

PM on the way @Mi-Amigo

Re: White Room Quiz Mon 17 Feb 2025

Mi-Amigo — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:39:06 GMT

Thank you @gmarkj

pm with your answers received

Re: White Room Quiz Mon 17 Feb 2025

Mi-Amigo — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 05:28:56 GMT

THE ANSWERS

Q1 PLACES 1 - What was the name of the "Lost City" in Jordan, built in 312BCE ?

A1 Petra

Q2 SCIENCE 1 - Gregor Mendel discovered the laws of inheritance by experiments on what plants ?

A2 peas

Q3 WORDS 1 - "cly", mentioned in 1736 dictionary, referred to what ?

A3 money

Q4 FOOD & DRINK 1 - Turk`s turban is a variety of which foodstuff ?

A4 squash

Q5 PLACES 2 - Yaounde is the capital city of which country ?

A5 Cameroon

Q6 SCIENCE 2 - Where is the human body of babies is the fontanelle ?

A6 head

Q7 WORDS 2 - "grannam", mentioned in 1736 dictionary, referred to which crop ?

A7 corn

Q8 FOOD & DRINK 2 - Persian apple is the former Roman name for which fruit ?

A8 peach

Re: White Room Quiz Mon 17 Feb 2025

Mi-Amigo — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 05:40:43 GMT

THE RESULTS

@MI5

Q1 correct Q2 correct Q3 correct Q4 correct .

Q5 correct Q6 correct Q7 correct Q8 correct .

plus for 8 correct answers also awarded

Silver Thinker

@Oxonian

Q1 correct Q2 correct Q3 correct Q4 pepper - incorrect .

Q5 correct Q6 pass Q7 pass Q8 apple - incorrect .

plus for 4 correct answers

Red Thinker

@jonsie

Q1 correct Q2 correct Q3 correct Q4 correct .

Q5 correct Q6 correct Q7 correct Q8 correct .

plus for 8 correct answers also awarded

Silver Thinker

@pgn

Q1 correct Q2 correct Q3 correct Q4 correct .

Q5 correct Q6 correct Q7 correct Q8 correct .

plus for 8 correct answers also awarded

Silver Thinker

@Cleoriff

Q1 correct Q2 correct Q3 correct Q4 correct .

Q5 correct Q6 correct Q7 correct Q8 correct .

plus for 8 correct answers also awarded

Silver Thinker

@Dave-O2

Q1 Incus - incorrect Q2 pass Q3 pass Q4 fruit - sorry need name .

Q5 correct Q6 correct Q7 rice - incorrect Q8 apple - incorrect .

Total - 2 stars for 2 correct

@gmarkj

Q1 Bob - incorrect Q2 correct Q3 pass Q4 bread - incorrect .

Q5 pass Q6 correct Q7 wheat - incorrect Q8 correct .

Total - 3 stars fro 3 correct .

Re: White Room Quiz Mon 17 Feb 2025

Mi-Amigo — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 05:46:53 GMT

AWARDS

Silver Thinker = 8 correct - @MI5 @jonsie @pgn @Cleoriff

Red Thinker = 4 correct - @Oxonian

3 stars = 3 correct - @gmarkj

2 stars = 2 correct - @Dave-O2

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE SILVER THINKERS - @MI5 @jonsie @pgn @Cleoriff

Well done

@Oxonian - Red Thinker

@gmarkj - 3 stars

@Dave-O2 - 2 stars

Everyone taking part was awarded at least 2 stars.

Thank you everyone for taking part and making the WRQ fun.

I hope everyone enjoyed the quiz and will join in today`s quiz of 8 questions with 2 questions on each of the following categories

PEOPLE LITERATURE ART GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

and will be posted on a separate thread shortly.

Re: White Room Quiz Mon 17 Feb 2025

pgn — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 08:19:07 GMT

A decent turn-out and a spread of marks - well done all. Those old words are a bit of a brain-buster....

Re: White Room Quiz Mon 17 Feb 2025

Cleoriff — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 09:00:18 GMT

Well done everyone. Thanks @Mi-Amigo

Re: White Room Quiz Mon 17 Feb 2025

MI5 — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 10:00:17 GMT

Thanks @Mi-Amigo

Well done all.

Re: White Room Quiz Mon 17 Feb 2025

Mi-Amigo — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 11:17:12 GMT

Thank you @pgn @Cleoriff @MI5

Pleased you enjoyed the quiz and well done on your awards

Re: White Room Quiz Mon 17 Feb 2025

Oxonian — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:04:30 GMT

Thank you @Mi-Amigo for organising ; some tricky questions therein. I suppose they make it fun.

Well done all. 👍

Re: White Room Quiz Mon 17 Feb 2025

Mi-Amigo — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 21:39:33 GMT

Thank you @Oxonian

Yeh, a couple of tricky ones this time.

Well done on your award.