The White Room Thursday Quiz - 12 Mar 2020 - Page 6

Mi-Amigo · ‎11-03-2020

WELCOME to

Each week, there are EIGHT questions, from a range of categories.

As promised, one question is in the Space category, which missed out by one vote from being in the People`s Choice Quiz last week

THIS WEEK`S EIGHT QUESTIONS

Q1 [Space]: Where, on the Moon, was the lunar module of Apollo 13 scheduled to land ?

Q2 [Chemistry]: Which element has the chemical symbol B ?

Q3 [Film/Movies]: Who won the Oscar for Best Actress four times - between 1930s and 1980s ?

Q4 [Games]: Which letter tile in the game Scrabble is the only one worth 5 points ?

Q5 [History]: Who was the British monarch from 1727 to 1760 ?

Q6 [Literature]: Which well-known novel has the opening line

"Christmas won`t be Christmas without any present", grumbled Jo, lying on the rug

Q7 [Places]: What is the State capital of New York State, in the USA ?

Q8 [Structures]: Where [city and country] is the Temple of the Golden Pavillion ?

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 12 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 star 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 12 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.

As one question was exceptionally hard last week, there is no QI-style question [where the answer is not what most people assume] this week, although a couple of questions may prove tricky.

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.

@Mi-Amigo

Some people see things as they are and ask "Why?"; I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?"
Robert Kennedy.

Mi-Amigo · ‎13-03-2020

ANSWERS TO THIS WEEK`S QUIZ

Q1 [Space]: Where, on the Moon, was the lunar module of Apollo 13 scheduled to land ?

A1: Fra Maura

Q2 [Chemistry]: Which element has the chemical symbol B ?

A2: this was one of two "tricky" questions [as several elements have chemical symbols with letter B plus another letter]. The correct answer is boron

Q3 [Film/Movies]: Who won the Oscar for Best Actress four times - between 1930s and 1980s ?

A3: Katharine Hepburn - in 1932/3; 1967; 1968; 1981

Q4 [Games]: Which letter tile in the game Scrabble is the only one worth 5 points ?

A4: letter K

Q5 [History]: Who was the British monarch from 1727 to 1760 ?

A5: George II [the second]

Q6 [Literature]: Which well-known novel has the opening line

"Christmas won`t be Christmas without any present", grumbled Jo, lying on the rug

A6: Little Women

Q7 [Places]: What is the State capital of New York State, in the USA ?

A7: the other "tricky" question - not New York City but Albany

Q8 [Structures]: Where [city and country] is the Temple of the Golden Pavillion ?

A8: Kyoto, Japan

Some people see things as they are and ask "Why?"; I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?"
Robert Kennedy.

MI5 · ‎13-03-2020

OMG

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Cleoriff · ‎13-03-2020

Ohhhhh...Boron was an inspired guess for me. Not a fan of chemistry unless it's biochemistry!

Veritas Numquam Perit

MI5 · ‎13-03-2020

@Cleoriff wrote:
Ohhhhh...Boron was an inspired guess for me.

Which is the 5th element in the periodic table, hence the tenuous link to the letter K

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Mi-Amigo · ‎13-03-2020

RESULTS:

@pgn

Q1 correct - awarded Q2 correct - awarded Q3 correct - awarded

Q4 correct - awarded Q5 correct - awarded Q6 correct - awarded

Q7 correct - awarded Q8 correct - awarded plus, for all 8 correct answers also awarded

Silver Thinker

@Cleoriff

Q1 correct - awarded Q2 correct - awarded Q3 correct - awarded

Q4 correct - awarded Q5 correct - awarded Q6 correct - awarded

Q7 correct - awarded Q8 correct - awarded plus, for all 8 correct answers also awarded

Silver Thinker

@Anonymous

Q1 Sea of Tranquility - incorrect [where Apollo 11 landed]; Q2 barium - incorrect;

Q3 Lauren Bacall - incorrect; Q4 letter A - incorrect; Q5 [pass]; Q6 correct - awarded ;

Q7 New York - incorrect; Q8 Amritza, India - incorrect

awarded total of 1

@MI5

Q1 correct - awarded Q2 correct - awarded Q3 correct - awarded

Q4 correct - awarded Q5 correct - awarded Q6 correct - awarded

Q7 correct - awarded Q8 correct - awarded plus, for all 8 correct answers also awarded

Silver Thinker

@gmarkj

Q1 [pass]: Q2 correct - awarded Q3 correct - awarded

Q4 correct - awarded Q5 correct - awarded Q6 correct - awarded

Q7 correct - awarded Q8 Sri Lanka - incorrect: plus, for 6 correct answers also awarded

Bronze Thinker

@jonsie

Q1 correct - awarded Q2 correct - awarded Q3 correct - awarded

Q4 correct - awarded Q5 correct - awarded Q6 correct - awarded

Q7 correct - awarded Q8 correct - awarded plus, for all 8 correct answers also awarded

Silver Thinker

@Martin-O2

Q1 correct - awarded ; Q2 correct - awarded ; Q3 Meryl Streep - incorrect;

Q4 [pass]; Q5 George I [first] - incorrect; Q6 [pass]; Q7 New York - incorrect;

Q8 Japan [correct but did not give city - so awarded half

awarded total of 2 and half

@Anonymous

Q1 correct - awarded : Q2 correct - awarded Q3 correct - awarded

Q4 correct - awarded Q5 correct - awarded Q6 Christmas Carol - incorrect

Q7 correct - awarded Q8 Bankok, Thailand - incorrect: plus, for 6 correct answers also awarded

Bronze Thinker

Well done, everyone.

Some people see things as they are and ask "Why?"; I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?"
Robert Kennedy.

Cleoriff · ‎13-03-2020

@MI5 wrote:
@Cleoriff wrote:
Ohhhhh...Boron was an inspired guess for me.
Which is the 5th element in the periodic table, hence the tenuous link to the letter K

If you say so. Too tenuous for me to get it even now..... Tenable was also a help for me getting that one right. As far as I'm concerned you can shove Chemistry where the sun don't shine

Veritas Numquam Perit

MI5 · ‎13-03-2020

Well done everyone

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MI5 · ‎13-03-2020

@Cleoriff wrote:Which is the 5th element in the periodic table, hence the tenuous link to the letter K
If you say so. Too tenuous for me to get it even now.....

5th element and the letter K is worth 5 points in Scrabble

PS. Physics and Chemistry were my favourite subjects at school

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Mi-Amigo · ‎13-03-2020

THE AWARDS THIS WEEK

CONGRATULATIONS to you all - everyone received an award

Silver Thinker - @pgn @Cleoriff @MI5 @jonsie

Bronze Thinker - @gmarkj @Anonymous

+ half star - @Martin-O2

- @Anonymous

I hope everyone enjoyed this week`s quiz.

NEXT WEEK`S QUIZ

I thought it might be fun to keep in the People`s Choice theme with next week`s White Room Quiz.

The categories will be the eight which received the fewest votes:

ART; STRUCTURES; EVENTS; PHYSICS; PEOPLE; CLASSICAL MUSIC; GAMES; WORDS

I will choose one question for each category over the weekend and one will be a QI-style question.

The questions will be posted as usual on Wednesday with answers pm`d to me on Thursday.

I hope as many of you as possible will join in.

Some people see things as they are and ask "Why?"; I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?"
Robert Kennedy.

Cleoriff · ‎13-03-2020

@MI5 wrote:
@Cleoriff wrote:Which is the 5th element in the periodic table, hence the tenuous link to the letter K
If you say so. Too tenuous for me to get it even now.....
5th element and the letter K is worth 5 points in Scrabble
PS. Physics and Chemistry were my favourite subjects at school

Oh yeah. Get it.

I'm still keeping that @pgn on the naughty step though....for at least a week!!! He needs to learn to keep his clever gob shut. Had me worrying and sleepless (pfffftttt) that I had an answer wrong.

Anyway, closing down now. Off to Brean in my Hamzat suit hoping I can avoid a certain virus doing the rounds!

Veritas Numquam Perit