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 

[jonsie]

4/6 for me.... 

[Mi-Amigo]

@gmarkj 

two correct isn`t too bad, given that these were tricky questions this week

@jonsie 

good to hear from you. hope you are OK. thanks for playing along. 4 out of the 6 is brilliant.