The White Room Thursday Quiz - 19 March 2020

[Mi-Amigo]

WELCOME to

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  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  

[Mi-Amigo]

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  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  

[jonsie]

Well done guys, great quiz @Mi-Amigo as usual 

[Mi-Amigo]

Thanks @jonsie for your kind comments.

I hope you`ll enjoy the next one - with the rather different categories from normal...

[Mi-Amigo]

Just a gentle reminder to all our quizzers...

tomorrow - Wed 25 March 2020 - I`ll be posting the questions for this week`s White Room Quiz.

As mentioned previously, there will be eight questions which don`t quite fit into the normal set of categories...

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

the questions have been sorted and the quiz is ready to go

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 @OldFart @WispaRed7 

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

This should be fun...

@Mi-Amigo    

[Cleoriff]

Peace? Codes? Internet?

Looking forward to it though.

[Mi-Amigo]

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@Cleoriff wrote:

Peace? Codes? Internet?

Looking forward to it though.

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@Cleoriff 

yep... good categories aren`t they  

oh and there is one question which might get a

What the [bleeep] 

[jonsie]

Looking forward to this

[pgn]

Anything to keep me away from the SARS-NCov-2 stuff, @Mi-Amigo.

Distraction, that's the name of the game!

[Mi-Amigo]

@jonsie 

Good to hear, you`re looking forward to the quiz...

@pgn 

I think this one could be a bit more than a distraction . Whether or not, it will keep anyone away from coming after me when you get the results is an entirely different matter....