The White Room Oddest Quiz - 26 March 2020

[Mi-Amigo]

WELCOME to

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...

@Mi-Amigo  

[Mi-Amigo]

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...

@Mi-Amigo  

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@Cleoriff wrote:

All went well till Deputy Matron Spoor (yes really) caught me in Casualty... 

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Last time I heard the word "spoor", I was watching a nature programme by David Attenborough, I think... 😖 Really indeed! 🤣