The White Room Quiz - Golden Thinker Challenge

[Mi-Amigo]

Welcome everyone to a very special edition of the

Rather than a contestant, chosen at random by @EmilieT , the two contestants - @Cleoriff and @pgn - who have both won the SILVER THINKER AWARD will face the GOLDEN THINKER CHALLENGE.

Each of them will attempt to answer the same TEN questions.

                                                                          The TEN QUESTIONS

Q1 [history]: Which of his six wives was Henry VIII married to the longest?

Q2 [people]: Who invented the pneumatic tyre?

Q3 [geography}: In which state or territory in Australia is Ayres Rock [more correctly called Uluru]?

Q4 [literature]: Which Shakespeare play features the line "All that glisters is not gold"?

Q5 [sport - Olympics]: Which event, introduced and only held at the 1908 Olympics, had only competitors from one country and the singles final was never contested?

Q6 [nature]: Where was the first menagerie in England introduced?

Q7 [science]: What does a venturi meter measure?

Q8 [music - not The Beatles]: Who were Woglinde, Wellgunde, and Flosshinde?

Q9 [TV sitcoms]: What were the first names of the original two girl characters in the Carla Lane TV sit-com The Liver Birds first screened in 1969?

Q10 [space]: What was the name of the lunar module [LM] which acted as a lifecraft for the crew of Apollo13 and brought them back to Earth in 1969? 

                                                                                           Rules:

You must pm the ten answers to me [MI-Amigo] and not post them on the thread.

You can answer the questions in any order - please copy and paste the question and add your answer.

You can post all of the answers together in one posts; or post one, or more, answer in several post; at any time between 00.01 [one minute after midnight] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thursday] 24 Oct 2019.

You may only give one answer to any questions. Please note: a second answer to any question cannot be given in these subsequent posts. 

Any answer posted before 00.01 or after 23.59 will be declared void.

Please - no googling, Wiki, social media, Youtube in search of the answers.

The results, with the correct answers, will be posted either late on Thursday 24 October [after answers have been submitted] or on Friday morning 25 October 2019.

Each correct answer will be awarded a 

If you get all TEN questions correct, you will be awarded the GOLDEN THINKER

                                                                              

All members, including those who have already been a contestant or have put their names forward as contestants and those who are considering being a future contestant, are welcome to join in and play along - by making their own list of questions and seeing how many they can get right - but, please do not post your answers on the thread.

Thank you and good luck - @Cleoriff and @pgn 

You may, if you wish, post your reactions to the questions, but please do not post any answers.

[EmilieT]

Good luck @Cleoriff and @pgn! I know one, maybe two answers, so this will be very interesting 

[Cleoriff]

Thanks @EmilieT 

Just about to PM @Mi-Amigo with my answers.

PS this gave me brain ache.

[jezza1234]

Some nice questions here. Have to say dont know the olympic one. I can guess at a couple but thry would be guess'

Have to say i like question 9 which wierdly I knew stright off as it was in another pub quiz I went to recently!

I am confident on 8 or 9 out of 10 on this one. But will have to see whn the answers go up

[Cleoriff]

One of my answers (which I would never have known) was as a result of a pub quiz @jezza1234 

[pgn]

A question about the Olympic game one:

Q5 [sport - Olympics]: Which event, introduced and only held at the 1908 Olympics, had only competitors from one country and the singles final was never contested?

Are you sure

(a) the event was ONLY held at 1908 Olympics? (this event in 1908 had 2 nations in the contest)

(b) had only competitiors from one country (this event appeared in several Olympics)

(c) had only competitors from one country and the singles final was never contested (this event was contested at other Olympics, but due controversy in 1908 only had a single competitor who won the final by default)

Or it's some other event of which my "Controversial Olympic Games of 1908" reference book is blissfully unaware.

By my estimates, no single event meets all the criteria of this particular sneaky question...

Asked here so there's no unfairness allegations - all my other answers are in.

Thanks!

[Cleoriff]

As my answers are in as well @pgn I will just say I hadn't a clue about this one so just made an 'inspired' guess.

[Cleoriff]

PS. I will have to wait for any answer, as I am now off for a siesta....

[pgn]

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@Cleoriff wrote:

As my answers are in as well @pgn I will just say I hadn't a clue about this one so just made an 'inspired' guess.

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I was about to do likewise, @Cleoriff until I reread the question and found none of my 3 possibilities counted.

[Mi-Amigo]

@pgn 

I never mind clarifying any of the questions in any of the White Room Quizzes 

With regards to:

Q5 [sport - Olympics]: Which event, introduced and only held at the 1908 Olympics, had only competitors from one country and the singles final was never contested?

You asked:

"Are you sure

(a) the event was ONLY held at 1908 Olympics? (this event in 1908 had 2 nations in the contest)

yes - event only held at 1908 Olympics

(b) had only competitiors from one country (this event appeared in several Olympics)

yes - only competitors from one country and this event did not appear in several Olympics 

(c) had only competitors from one country and the singles final was never contested (this event was contested at other Olympics, but due do differences of openion in 1908 only had a single competitor who won the final by default)

yes - only competitors from one country and singles final was never contested. This event was not contested at other Olympics nor, due to differences of opinion in 1908, only had a single competitor. But the winner did win by default - as final was never contested.

Your "Controversial Olympic Games of 1908" may well be referring to another event - not to the one which does meet the criteria in the question.

When I give the results, I will give the source for the answers to the posed question.

Hope that helps.  

[pgn]

Thanks for the clarification, but no, no help whatsoever.

My Q5 is a complete shot in the dark.

Over to you for the judging, do your worst. 😭