The White Room Thursday Quiz - 14 November 2019

[Mi-Amigo]

Welcome to

 

     This week`s contestant, chosen at random by @EmilieT   is

                                                          @Sy 

The six questions are:

Q1 [history]: Which is the oldest university in Scotland?

Q2 [science]: Which two metals are used to make brass?

Q3 [nature]: How many wings does a mosquito have? 

Q4 [words]: What is dendrology the study of?

Q5 [music]: Which song famously kept Vienna by Ultravox off the No 1 in the UK charts in 1981?

Q6 [food & drink]: Which French dish has a name which literally means "pot on fire"?

Rules:

You can only give one answer to each question.

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 posts [as @pgn did previously]; at any time between 00.01 [one minute after midnight] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thursday] 14 November 2019. 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 14 November [after answers have been submitted] or on Friday morning 15 November 2019.

Each correct answer will be awarded a 

If you get all six questions correct, you will be awarded the Silver Thinker

The White Room Thursday Quiz is open to all members.

Previously, contestants - inc @Cleoriff , @pgn , @gmarkj , @jezza1234 , @AnnieM - and other members - inc @EmilieT , @Anonymous , @TallTrees - have played along by  making their own list of questions and seeing how many they can get right.

Everyone is invited to play along with this week`s quiz - but, please do not post your answers on the thread. You will be able to see how well you did when I give the correct answers/

Thank you for your interest and good luck @Sy 

[Anonymous]

Well done @Sy 

I got one question correct - the St Andrews one

Thank you @Mi-Amigo for compiling The Thursday Quiz

[EmilieT]

Well I did have one correct in the end 

Awesome work @Sy, those weren't that easy and you did great for your first Thursday Quiz! 

[Anonymous]

Wow.. I was only sure of 3, but actually knew 5

[Mi-Amigo]

Thanks for your feedback, guys.

@Anonymous - well done on getting the Scottish university one right 

@EmilieT - I guess it was the French cooking one which you knew. How did you do with the others?

@Anonymous - thank you for playing along in this your first quiz. 5 correct is brilliant. Which one, may I ask [just curious] did you have trouble with?

and, of course, again congratulations to @Sy on getting five questions correct in your first go at being the contestant.

I hope all of you will join in with the next White Room Thursday Quiz when the six questions will be chosen over the coming weekend from these categories -

Events; Geography; Space; Sport; Literature; TV Sit-coms.

If any member - whether a new member or one who has not put their name forward previously, would like to join @Cleoriff ; @pgn ; @gmarkj ; @jezza1234 ; @AnnieM ; and @Sy who have been a contestant,

as a contestant, please pm me [Mi-Amigo] your name and I will add it to the list for the draw, which will be made by @EmilieT at the beginning of next week.

Even if you are not chosen, or prefer not to be a contestant, you can still join in and play along.

Thank you everyone for playing and your support for the quiz. I hope you all continue to enjoy them. 

[Anonymous]

Never heard of Dendrology @Mi-Amigo

[Cleoriff]

Well done @Sy . A great effort.

Funnily enough Dendrology threw me a curve ball at first! In anatomy and physiology, dendrites are nerve (neural cell pathways) and I thought 'Hells teeth, that's damn hard'...Then I remembered that they are called dendrites as they look like trees

So I'm pleased that it was far simpler than I first imagined.

[Mi-Amigo]

Thanks for the info @Cleoriff .

I know sometimes my questions are brain-teasers but don`t think I`d go that far - well, not in a "word" question  Well done for getting it right...

[pgn]

The Ultravox one would have thrown me.

Pot au feu, though, is definitely not to be confounded with Coq au vin. Or Chicken Chasseur or Chicken Cacciatore (Italian), "Hunter's chicken (stew)".

Dendrology is a good one, watch out for a dendrograph - either a device for measuring changes in the dimensions of a tree trunk, OR a branching chart used in cladistics to show how far apart characteristics or species are from each other...

[Mi-Amigo]

Thanks @pgn for the info on dendrograph. Although I love words, I didn`t know about it being used as a term in charts...

Every day is a schoolday... 

[gmarkj]

I would have got St Andrews and two wings but that would be it for me!