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Each week, there are EIGHT questions, from a range of categories.
This week is the PEOPLE`S CHOICE:
EIGHT CATEGORIES CHOSE BY MEMBERS OF THE O2 COMMUNITY
ONE QUESTION IN EACH CATEGORY CHOSEN BY QUIZMASTER @Mi-Amigo
THIS WEEK`S EIGHT QUESTIONS
Q1 [FOOD & DRINK]: Where is islinglass gelatin obtained from?
Q2 [TV]: Which British TV sit-com from 1970s/80s featured Ben and Ria Parkinson and their two sons, Adam and Russell?
Q3 [SPORT]: Who is Lord`s Cricket Ground named after?
Q4 [BIOLOGY]: Which part of the human body is affected by the medical condition aphakia ?
Q5 [NATURE]: Which species of tree was the tallest ever recorded?
Q6 [ROCK/POP MUSIC]: The name of which band was inspired by the nickname of musician Charlie Parker?
Q7 [GEOGRAPHY]: In which country are the Toodos montains?
Q8 [FILMS/MOVIES]: Which was the first completed film directed by Alfred Hitchcock?
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 05 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 05 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.
As usual, there is one QI-style question, where the answer is not what most people assume.
I have tried to make this quiz a fair balance of questions, although one question may prove tricky.
This quiz - as are all White Room Thursday Quizzes - are open to all members.
I hope those who have taken part in a previous White Room Thursday Quiz will take part, and that new members, and those who have not previously played, will join in.
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.
I hope everyone enjoys this People`s Choice edition of the White Room Thursday Quiz.
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@Marjo wrote:All of them caught me out @Mi-Amigo
I was sure I got the gelatin question right. Fish bladders! I wonder where they use that.
I actually almost chose the space category but last minute replaced it with the food category instead. So I'm excited to see what space question we'll get next time.
I don't know much about it but space is always interesting!!
Sorry you didn`t do so well this week @Marjo
The idea for the gelatin question came about over last weekend when I read fish bladders have been removed from Guiness. Had you voted for Space instead of food and drink then Space would have been the category.
As to the Space question, I`m going to be checking through the questions for the eight categories over the weekend. I do have two questions in mind for Space - one is fairly easy, the other is "sneaky", so I`ll have to have a think...
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Guinness and fish bladders, explains the use of the expression "I'm bladdered!" when 3 sheets to the wind on Guinness 
Isinglass is commonly used to help remove cloudiness (to clear) from home-made wine 
(if anyone's interested)
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@Mi-Amigo wrote:
@jonsie wrote:Laid down dead when measured.... Sneaky.... hit man hired!!
Hit man hired, @jonsie ?
Please don`t shoot me, I`m just the quizmaster and it was the people who chose the category... speaking of which, the category ou said you wanted - History - is one in next week`s quiz....
You must have a damn good source for that tree question @Mi-Amigo ...Since the answers were given I've looked and looked again and can find no mention of the damn thing 
PS not doubting you were correct, so please don't think that. I'm just saying the fact that all of us got it wrong proves how hard it was 
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@Cleoriff wrote:You must have a damn good source for that tree question @Mi-Amigo ...Since the answers were given I've looked and looked again and can find no mention of the damn thing
PS not doubting you were correct, so please don't think that. I'm just saying the fact that all of us got it wrong proves how hard it was
I don`t mind in the least you asking about the source for the tree question.
As most of you know, I have a very large library of old and also obscure books, which I use for the Quizzes. On occasions, I do make online searches - never Wiki - and always cross-check the source.
As to the tree question.
Measuring the felled eucalptus tree is in an old edition of Guiness Book of Records [pre-name change to Guiness World Records].
As this was also mentioned in a QI General Ignorance book. I looked for sources and found, what I think and regard as reliable - the Smithsonian Magazine [connected to the US Smithsonian Institute] which states:
Eucalyptus. The tree Down Under, the eucalyptus includes 700 species mostly endemic to Australia.
... in their native lands, eucalyptus are honorable kings. They provide essential habitat and food for the koala, for one, and are regarded highly for the medicinal and aromatic uses of its oils, often used in hand lotions and soaps.
And there is a less recognized fact about eucalyptus trees–that they grow tall, super tall, taller than most of the biggest-tree-contenders in the world, taller, perhaps, than any other species. You ready? Drum roll please: The tallest eucalyptus ever, at Watts River, Victoria, was just shy of 500 feet.
I hope this helps explain where the answer came from.
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The hardest QI question ever posted in the WRQ, in my opinion @Mi-Amigo 
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@Cleoriff wrote:The hardest QI question ever posted in the WRQ, in my opinion @Mi-Amigo
I apologise to you and everyone who found this the hardest question ever posted.
[to be honest, I thought the man who built and flew the first airplane was the hardest question I ever set]
The quiz is meant to be fun, not to scramble your brains - especially given the talent the members have shown at beating some of the top quizzers - and hope it hasn`t put anyone off joining in next week...
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IMO there are no hard or easy questions. You either know the answer, or you don't and in this case, we didn't
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@MI5 wrote:
IMO there are no hard or easy questions. You either know the answer, or you don't and in this case, we didn't
I appreciate that @MI5
I would add, though, that when I used to be in a pub team, we might think a question we knew the answer to was "easy" which we thought other teams might find "hard".
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I have no problem with any of the questions @Mi-Amigo so no need for apologies. I was simply pointing out the tree question (from my perpective) was the hardest ever.
The fact no-one got it correct confirms that.
