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Each week, there are EIGHT questions, from a range of categories.
This week, the eight questions don`t quite fit into the normal set of categories. The categories are...
Money; Alphabet; Peace; Codes; Internet; Languages; Temperature; Jobs
This could be the oddest, weirdest and funniest WRQ we have ever had...
THIS WEEK`S EIGHT QUESTIONS
Q1 [Money]: What is the total sum of these pre-decimal British amounts - one tanner + one bob + one half-crown + one quid + one guinea + one pony [answer in £ [pounds] s [shillings] d [pence] ?
Q2 [Alphabet]: Which was the last letter to be added to the English alphabet?
Q3 [Peace]: Where in the UK did John Lennon and Yoko Ono plant acorns for peace [answer with place and town/city] ?
Q4 [Code]: What is the Morse code for Q [answer with dots and dashes - or . - ]
Q5 [Internet]: Which country uses the domain name .ee ?
Q6 [Languages]: What day of the week is Mercoledi Italian for ?
Q7 [Temperature]: What is the temperature in degrees for the boiling point of water in the Kelvin scale?
Q8 [Jobs]: What was the job of a keeler ?
The White Room Thursday Quiz will be open to all members of the Community.
Those who want to take part will need to pm [private message] me [Mi-Amigo] with their answers between 00.01 [one minute after midnight] and 23.59 [11.59pm] on Thursday 26 March 2020.
Please do not post your answers on the thread.
The answers - and the results for each player taking part - will be posted on Friday morning.
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] between 00.01 [one minute after midnight] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow - on Thursday 26 March 2020.
No member is to post any answer on the thread.
Any answer received before 00.01 on Thursday and/or after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Thursday will be declared void.
No googling, wiki, youtube search for answers.
I have tried to give a balance between difficult and easier questions this week.
The White Room Thursday Quizz is open to all members.
I hope new members, who have recently joined the Community, and members who have not taken part before, will 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 this week`s White Room Thursday Quiz.
Have fun with the oddest questions ever on WRQ...
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Glad I showed my working-out for the LSD question, thankfully. 👍
The hardest questions there were the acorn one, as I later found the name was St. Michael's Cathedral. And the keeler one was a guess, based on something I heard on a programme about Newcastle and the river Tyne. Amazing what you pick up off radio and from pub quizzes.
Well done all, a great spread of responses this week, surprise surprise 😖
Thanks for a great quiz again, @Mi-Amigo!
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I enjoyed the proper money one as well @Mi-Amigo . It felt weird totting it up on paper though, like going back in time.
Being a Coventry kid made the acorn one easy...
As for the damn stupid Kelvin scale, as a nursing cadet age 15-18, we were taught about the Fahrenheit and Kelvin scale. To this day I have no idea why, as we never used Kelvin although it was asked as one of our State final exams questions.
There again, we also worked with minims, drams and ounces.
The keeler one was ok for me, when I have a husband whose ancestry is heavily linked to bargees. (His brother was born on a barge)
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Kelvin scale is easy, @Cleoriff: always remember absolute zero, or 0K, is -273degC. So boiling point of water at sea level is 100degC, ie 273 + 100 = 373K.
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@pgn wrote:Kelvin scale is easy, @Cleoriff: always remember absolute zero, or 0K, is -273degC. So boiling point of water at sea level is 100degC, ie 273 + 100 = 373K.
I know @pgn but it was a memory thing for me, as celsius was never used in 1959/1962 nursing. It was Fahrenheit.(though we were taught about Kelvin)
However, the cadet scheme was all about teaching 15 year olds to reach grammar school level. So 50% classroom and 50% wards and depts until you were 18.Then you took a pre-lim exam to get you into nursing at 18.
The State final exams were nothing like those of today. It was 2 days of written exams and 2 days of practical exams (with tutors from other hospitals)
I was a bit of a target for these dried up, unmarried old maids. In that by the age of 21, I had dyed blonde hair in a bouffant and a uniform as short as I could get away with. So in an effort to make me as uncomfortable as possible and in the middle of practical work, I was asked a question about the Kelvin scale and another asking how many minims were in a fluid dram.!!
Nurse tutor battleaxe was sooooo disappointed when I got them both correct. (Timewarp time)
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@Cleoriff wrote:
@@I know @pgn but it was a memory thing for me, as celsius was never used in 1959/1962 nursing. It was Fahrenheit.(though we were taught about Kelvin)
Never understood that Fahrenheit scale. Ditto for LSD, although I do know it, it's easier to work with 10s than 12s, in my book - perhaps the "lazy" generation, children of the 60s...🤣
Loved the bouffant old maids description, @Cleoriff 👵😂
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Yeah, I had the blonde bouffant, she had steel grey marcel waved hair under a very starched cap. I think her name was MISS Brown!
As for my short uniform. It was the 60's and no way was I wearing anything below my knee. So me and a friend, also an 'outrageous blonde', used to sew our hems up. I was 5ft 7ins so it was obvious.
All went well till Deputy Matron Spoor (yes really) caught me in Casualty and in front of a load of patients, brought out her scissors and cut the hem down. It was starched and I walked round with a dress shaped like an umbrella for the rest of the day. The shame!
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Thank you @Cleoriff @pgn @MI5 for your comments.
Its always great to read what folks thought of the questions - which ones were easier, or knew/guessed an answer... 
Well I can put my feet up this weekend, do a bit of studying of those subjects I`m hopeless at, and await what goodies [categories] @Cleoriff has in store for us all next week 
