The White Room Thursday Quiz - New Year Special

[Mi-Amigo]

Welcome to the New Year Special Edition of 

 

  As with the White Room Thursday Quiz Christmas Special, there is no selected contestant this week. The White Room Thursday Quiz is open to all members of the O2 Community, who are invited to pm [private message] me - @Mi-Amigo - with their answers. Please do not post your answers on the thread.

There are 12 questions - related in some way - to New Year

Q1 [words]: Where did the word "Hogmany" originate from?

Q2 [history]: When [which year] was New Year`s Day officially declared a public holiday in England?

Q3 [events]: Where, in Essex, is the annual Mad Mud Race held on 1 January? 

Q4 [geography]: Norway changed the name of its capital city to Oslo on 1 January 1925. What was its former name?

Q5 [science]: For what did Marie Curie receive her second Nobel Prize on New Year`s Day 1911?

Q6 [games]: Which board game was patented by George Durrow on New Year`s Eve 1935?

Q7 [sport]: Which American football college "bowl game" is usually played for on 1 January?

Q8 [literature]: Who was the British author, born on 1 January 1879, who wrote A Passage to India ?

Q9 [TV sit-com]: The episode "Only A Story" of TV sit-com One Foot In The Grave was first screened on New Year`s Day 1995 and featured Mrs Warboys and her budgie staying with the Meldrews. Who played the character Mrs Warboys?

Q10 [food & drink]: What were "popladys", uniquely sold on the streets on St Albans on New Year`s Day in the 1880s?

Q11 [music]: Which single by The Beatles was their first UK New Year No1?

Q12 [people]: Who wrote "Auld Lang Syne", with the opening line "Should auld acquantance be forgot"?

Rules:

Please do not post your answers on the thread.

Please send only one pm with all 12 questions and your answers to Mi-Amigo - at any time between 00.01 [one minute after midnight] tomorrow [Thursday] and 12.00 [noon] on Friday 3 January...

- note: the period for entries has been extended to allow those who are away to take part.

Any answer posted before 00.01 on Thursday or after 12.00 noon on Friday will be declared void.

Please - no googling, Wiki, social media, Youtube in search of the answers.

Answers and Results:

The correct answers, will be posted after 13.00 [1.00pm] on Friday 3 January 2020.

Each member will be awarded a for each correct answer.

In addition, all members will be awarded

for 6 correct answers:                 for 10 correct answers:                              for all 12 correct answers:

                                                                                 

      Silver Thinker                              Golden Thinker                                             Diamond Thinker

Comments on the questions are welcome.

I hope those who joined or played along in the White Room Christmas Quiz, or have played along in the regular White Room Thursday Quiz [inc @Cleoriff ; @MI5 ; @pgn ; @Sy ; @Anonymous ; @Martin-O2 ; @Marjo ; @Anonymous ; @jonsie ; @gmarkj ;  @jezza1234 ; @RyanK1992 ] and new members, or those who have not taken part before, will join in with this quiz and have a go at the answers by pming me.

Please do not post your answers on the thread but comments on the questions and quiz are welcome.

I wish everyone "Good luck"

@Mi-Amigo 

[Cleoriff]

I'm also happy as at least 4 of mine were guesses.

Q1:Hogmanay....a guess, simply due to Mary Queen of Scots return from exile in France

Q6: I actually replied I had NO idea but would guess at Monopoly (nearly went with Scrabble )

Q10. I thought of poptarts so went with cake or buns

Q12. Robbie Burns (not) I actually said RB but as I guessed this was a QI question it was probably wrong.

I was right. It WAS wrong...

Anyway, I enjoyed it, although it WAS harder than last one @Mi-Amigo 

[Sy]

Whoops I missed it, was supposed to answer it this morning and then got busy and forgot lol

Congratulations to all that got some right

Cheers @Mi-Amigo

I think I would have had about 3 this time myself haha

[Mi-Amigo]

As you said @Cleoriff , it was a much harder quiz than even the Xmas one... so I am not too surprised that no-one got all 12 questions correct. 

I can now reveal that Q1 - the QI-style one - came about from reading a very old book - with references - which I had as a Christmas present. Having read it on Boxing Day, and coming across the information on Hogmanay, I couldn`t resist including it in this quiz...

Sorry you missed out on the quiz @Sy Out of curiousity, which questions would you have got right and which ones were the most difficult? 

[jonsie]

Well done everyone.

Apologies for not taking part but I have a few personal problems atm which are quite upsetting.

[Mi-Amigo]

No apologies necessary @jonsie . I hope whatever you are having to deal with, which is upsetting for you, is resolved soon. 

[jonsie]

Thank you @Mi-Amigo , much appreciated.

[Sy]

@Mi-Amigo

I would have been 50/50 on A2 as I would have said 1972 or 1973 and I would have been correct on 4/5/6 and that would have been it this time haha

[Anonymous]

Thank you for mentioning me @Mi-Amigo 

I did pm you that I didn't know any of the answers

However, thank you for compiling the quiz 

[Mi-Amigo]

Apologies @Anonymous for not mentioning you pming me with regards to the quiz - my bad .

I hope that you will find the questions in the next quiz a lot easier . 

[Anonymous]

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@Mi-Amigo wrote:

Apologies @Anonymous for not mentioning you pming me with regards to the quiz - my bad .

I hope that you will find the questions in the next quiz a lot easier . 

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Please @Mi-Amigo no apologies necessary.

if I had one jot of wit about me I would have submitted funny answers