The White Room Thursday Quiz - 31st October 2019
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on 30-10-2019 09:03
Welcome to the return of the normal
This week`s contestant, chosen at random by @EmilieT is
The six questions are:
Q1 [history]: During which war did the Charge of the Light Brigade take place?
Q2 [geography]: Which town is the county town of Essex?
Q3 [words]: What does the acronym LASER stand for?
Q4 [measurements]: How long, in feet, was one chain in pre-metric measurements?
Q5 [currency]: What was the currency of Finland before adopting the Euro?
Q6 [food & drink]: Where in Britain did HP sauce originate?
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] 31 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 31 October [after answers have been submitted] or on Friday morning 1 November 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 @gmarkj
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on 30-10-2019 09:07
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on 30-10-2019 09:12
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on 30-10-2019 09:12
Great questions @Mi-Amigo, I'm not sure I know any of the answers but I'm very curious about most
Good luck @gmarkj
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on 30-10-2019 09:20
I think i know one, maybe two.
Another will be an educated guess.
The rest? Pot luck!
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on 30-10-2019 18:23
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on 30-10-2019 18:24
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on 30-10-2019 18:24
I know five of the six
....at least I think I do
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on 30-10-2019 18:27
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