The White Room Thursday Quiz - 19 March 2020 - Page 6

Mi-Amigo · ‎18-03-2020

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

As promised, this week`s quiz will be eight questions - with one question from each of the categories with the fewest votes in the People`s Choice

THIS WEEK`S EIGHT QUESTIONS

Q1 [Art]: Which artist [1841-1919] painted "Luncheon of the Boating Party" ?

Q2 [Structures]: What was the former name of what is now known as 30 St Mary Axe, London?

Q3 [Events]: What is the birthstone for the month of August ?

Q4 [Physics]: For his work on what was Albert Einstein awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 ?

Q5 [People]: Who was the Roman god of wine ?

Q6 [Classical Music]: Who composed the "Surprise Symphony" ?

Q7 [Games]: On a UK Monopoly board [of London], there are three light blue coloured properties -

two are The Angel, Islington and Euston Road. What is the third?

Q8 [Words]: "Intrusion" is the collective moun for which group of animals ?

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 19 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 19 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.

I have tried to give a balance between difficult and easier questions this week.

As usual, there is one QI-style question [where the answer is not what most people think] and one is "tricky" [but not impossible like the infamous "tree question"].

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 · ‎20-03-2020

@jonsie wrote:
Think I got Q4 incorrect @Mi-Amigo

To explain my reasoning...

You said it was for theoretical work - not on relativity - but on light.

Others who gave the correct answer did make specific mention of Einstein`s work on photoelectric effect so I have accepted also accepted your answer.

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

pgn · ‎20-03-2020

Thanks, @Mi-Amigo, and well done to all participants. Dunno why I didn't suss cockroaches, seen enough of them in my time, both as a casual onlooker and on a professional basis many years back. 🙄

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MI5 · ‎20-03-2020

Well done everyone 👍

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Cleoriff · ‎20-03-2020

Well done everyone......Good game, despite the physics one...

Veritas Numquam Perit

Mi-Amigo · ‎20-03-2020

Thanks @pgn , @MI5 , and @Cleoriff for your comments.

Next week`s WHITE ROOM QUIZ - teaser

Over the past few weeks, we`ve had the People`s Choice; the infamous "tree" question; and now this one with "bloody, sodding" physics [to quote one poster]...

so I thought it might be fun for next week`s quiz to have eight questions which don`t quite fit into the normal set of categories...

In other words, eight "one-off" categories with one question for each -

Money; Alphabet; Peace; Codes; Internet; Languages; Temperature; Jobs

I`ve already got the questions for two of the categories and will search for the others over the weekend.

Your comments on the slightly-different White Room Quiz are welcome...

This could be the oddest, weirdest and funniest WRQ we have ever had...

I hope the "regulars"

@Cleoriff @pgn @MI5 @jonsie @gmarkj @Martin-O2 @Marjo @Anonymous @Anonymous

will take part and look forward to welcoming new members and those who have not played before or a while ago...

@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.

MI5 · ‎20-03-2020

Sounds interesting

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pgn · ‎20-03-2020

Doubtless mayhem will ensue... 🙀😖
Great idea, @mi-Amigo👍

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Martin-O2 · ‎20-03-2020

great fun as always @Mi-Amigo! Good job everyone.

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Mi-Amigo · ‎20-03-2020

Thanks @MI5 and @pgn and @Martin-O2

I hope you enjoy the new quiz...

I have got one really wacky question

I do have a sneaky feeling I might pay for it when the April Fool Quiz comes along...

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

MI5 · ‎20-03-2020

@Mi-Amigo wrote:
I have got one really wacky question

Just one

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