The White Room Thursday Quiz - 17 Oct 2019

[Mi-Amigo]

 

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

                                                          @pgn 

The six questions are:

Q1 [history]: Who was the youngest person to assume the office of President of the United States of America?

Q2 [words]: What is an abomasum?

Q3 [games]: Where does the secret passage from the Lounge lead to in Waddington`s Cluedo in the 1960s edition? 

Q4 [science]: Which two letters form the chemical symbol for mercury?

Q5 [music]: What was the original title of The Kink`s song, before the lyrics and title were changed before release to "Waterloo Sunset"?

Q6 [tv sitcom]: Who, according to the lyrics of the title song of TV sitcom "Only Fools And Horses" did Derek "Del Boy" Trotter get "Some Trevor Francis tracksuits" from ?

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 you - @pgn - did previously]; at any time between 00.01 [one minute after midnight] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thursday] 10 October 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 17 October [after answers have been submitted] or on Friday morning 18 October 2019.

Each correct answer will be awarded a 

If you get all six questions correct, you will be awarded the Silver 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 for your interest and good luck @pgn 

[pgn]

Quiet at the back, please, I'm thinking... 🤣

[Cleoriff]

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@pgn wrote:

Quiet at the back, please, I'm thinking... 🤣

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[jonsie]

Silver thinker.... I picture the X Men 🚹 

[pgn]

So here we go. The maybes:

Q5 [music]: What was the original title of The Kink`s song, before the lyrics and title were changed before release to "Waterloo Sunset"?

Because @Mi-Amigo can be a sneaky tricksie quizmaster 👌, with a love for all things Beatles🐞, I think the answer here is "Liverpool Sunset" Dunno why, despite the lyrics referencing lovers, the Thames and Waterloo Station.

And the final question and answer, a complete stab in the dark (Scrabble or Chinese Chequers in my childhood, not Cluedo, alas)... (so X-men rather than Silver Thinker, @Cleoriff, I suspect, as @jonsie pointed out 🤣)

Q3 [games]: Where does the secret passage from the Lounge lead to in Waddington`s Cluedo in the 1960s edition? 

The Conservatory. 

That's it from me, thanks for your patience! 

Do your worst, @Mi-Amigo. 

[Cleoriff]

@pgn 

As I said, I would have a scooby do about the Cluedo question.....but I do know the answer to the Kinks one,....

[Mi-Amigo]

The results - in the order in which @pgn answered the six questions:

Q4 [science]: Which two letters form the chemical symbol for mercury?
A4: Simple one, as all chemical elements have a unique one- or two-letter IUPAC symbol, the first always capitalised, the second, if a second letter is used for that element, always in lower case:
Hg - from the Greek for Mercury: hydrargyrum.

- correct = awarded 

Q2 [words]: What is an abomasum?

A2: It's the 4th, I think, stomach of any ruminant, eg, a cow. The 3rd is the omasum. Can't remember the other two - but it's what makes ruminants so successful at using grass as their food source (and the other two stomach chambers are great at generating the greenhouse gases in such volumes that makes us wonder if perhaps rearing cattle for food is such a wise idea after all).

- correct = awarded 

Q6 [tv sitcom]: Who, according to the lyrics of the title song of TV sitcom "Only Fools And Horses" did Derek "Del Boy" Trotter get "Some Trevor Francis tracksuits" from ?

A6: With this theme rolling around my head most of the day, the answer is:

"From a mush in Shepherd's Bush."

- correct = awarded  

Q1 [history]: Who was the youngest person to assume the office of President of the United States of America?

A1: This is a real headscratcher - I first thought Clinton... Then I thought Obama...  Then Kennedy... And I figured it had to be a bit further back, so I am going to take a stab at... 

Theodore Roosevelt, who assumed the presidency from McKinley died as a result of shotgun injuries. 

- Theodore Roosevelt was aged 42 years 322 days when he assumed the presidency following the assassination of William McKinley. JFK was the youngest to be elected - aged 43 years 163 days.

- correct = awarded 

Q5 [music]: What was the original title of The Kink`s song, before the lyrics and title were changed before release to "Waterloo Sunset"?

A5: Because @Mi-Amigo can be a sneaky tricksie quizmaster 👌, with a love for all things Beatles🐞, I think the answer here is "Liverpool Sunset" Dunno why, despite the lyrics referencing lovers, the Thames and Waterloo Station.

- Ray Davis of The Kinks, in an interview with Jade Wright of the Liverpool Echo of 14 May 2010 said:

"Liverpool is my favourite city and the song was originally called "Liverpool Sunset". I was inspired by Merseybeat. I`d fallen in love with Liverpool at that point... so I wrote Liverpool Sunset. Later, it got changed to Waterloo Sunset"...

- correct = awarded 

Q3 [games]: Where does the secret passage from the Lounge lead to in Waddington`s Cluedo in the 1960s edition? 

A3: The Conservatory. 

- the secret passage from the KITCHEN leads to the STUDY; but the secret passage from the LOUNGE leads to the CONSERVATORY... 

- correct = awarded 

@pgn - you have been awarded      

and with six  - congratulations @pgn  you are also awarded the Silver Thinker.

Thank you for being a contestant.

Thanks also to everyone who played along. How did you get on with the questions? Your feedback is welcome... 

[#8]

Q4 [science]: Which two letters form the chemical symbol for mercury?
A4: Simple one, as all chemical elements have a unique one- or two-letter IUPAC symbol, the first always capitalised, the second, if a second letter is used for that element, always in lower case:
Hg - from the Greek for Mercury: hydrargyrum.

[#9]

- correct = awarded 

Q2 [words]: What is an abomasum?

[#10]

A2: It's the 4th, I think, stomach of any ruminant, eg, a cow. The 3rd is the omasum. Can't remember the other two - but it's what makes ruminants so successful at using grass as their food source (and the other two stomach chambers are great at generating the greenhouse gases in such volumes that makes us wonder if perhaps rearing cattle for food is such a wise idea after all).

[#11]

- correct = awarded 

[#12]

Q6 [tv sitcom]: Who, according to the lyrics of the title song of TV sitcom "Only Fools And Horses" did Derek "Del Boy" Trotter get "Some Trevor Francis tracksuits" from ?

A6: With this theme rolling around my head most of the day, the answer is:

"From a mush in Shepherd's Bush."

- correct = awarded  

Q1 [history]: Who was the youngest person to assume the office of President of the United States of America?

A1: This is a real headscratcher - I first thought Clinton... Then I thought Obama...  Then Kennedy... And I figured it had to be a bit further back, so I am going to take a stab at... 

Theodore Roosevelt, who assumed the presidency from McKinley died as a result of shotgun injuries. 

- Theodore Roosevelt was aged 42 years 322 days when he assumed the presidency following the assassination of William McKinley. JFK was the youngest to be elected - aged 43 years 163 days.

- correct = awarded 

[pgn]

Woohoo! Even I am amazed! I thought I hadn't a Cluedo 

Thanks, @Mi-Amigo, and to @EmilieT for picking me.

And for the odd comment just to keep me keen - those peeps know who they are...

[Mi-Amigo]

@pgn 

Well deserved.

As you know, I put the questions together over the weekend before Emilie draws the names; and, as she doesn`t know the questions and I don`t know who will be chosen, it is random who gets what questions.

That said, I thought Q1 the US President one was the QI-style one and would be most difficult to answer, as most people say Kennedy. The sneaky, tricky one was Waterloo Sunset, and "yes" it is my love of the city and The Beatles which drew me to choosing it. 

[Cleoriff]

Good quiz. Well done @pgn  for winning the Silver Thinker (spits)

I would have scored 5.

Thanks for putting it together @Mi-Amigo 

[jonsie]

I had no idea on the cluedo as it was never something I ever played. Also got the president wrong.