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Welcome to the APRIL FOOL edition of
PLEASE NOTE AMENDED TIMES BELOW FOR SENDING YOUR PM'S WITH ANSWERS
As mentioned in the Advanced Notice on Monday HERE I will be quizmaster this week and our resident quizmaster ( @Mi-Amigo ) will also be attempting to answer the 12 questions in this White Room April Fool Quiz
THE QUESTIONS
Q1: APRIL FOOL PRANKS: One of the greatest April Fool pranks of all time was the Spaghetti Tree Prank. In which country were Spaghetti trees said to be growing?
Q2: SCIENCE : In coal mining, what is known as firedamp?
Q3: TRIVIA: Who were the last two people to be imprisoned in the Tower Of London?
Q4:TELEVISION: Which famous film director, directed the first episode of Columbo in 1971?
Q5:GEOGRAPHY: Where is the Olympus Mons Mountain located?
Q6: SPORT. What football Club once had Field Marshal Montgomery as its Chairman and Arthur Conan Doyle as a goalkeeper?
Q7: ART: Which famous artist had himself tied to the mast of a ship so he could paint a storm?
Q8: MUSIC: Which Nobel Prize winner wrote 'Make You Feel My Love' for Adele?
Q9: WORDS: What is the connection between the following words: Leapfrog, Import, Shipwrecked, Zany?
Q10: MEDICINE: Where was the world's first human heart transplant performed in 1967
Q11: NATURE: What is the fastest two legged creature in the world?
Q12: HISTORY: Which British Prime Minister was Knighted a total of 26 times?
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 ( @Cleoriff ) anytime after the questions are posted and up to 23.59 [11.59pm] on Thursday 2 April 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 3rd April 2020.
THE AWARDS:
Each correct answer will be awarded a 
. In addition, the following trophies will be awarded for
12 correct 10 correct 8 correct 6 correct 4 correct
answers answers answers answers answers
Diamond Golden Silver Bronze Red
Thinker Thinker Thinker Thinker Thinker
DUE TO THE UNPRECEDENTED AMOUNT OF POSTING ON THE FORUM, I HAVE CHANGED THE TIMES FOR ANSWERS VIA PM'S TO ME
THE RULES
Each member are able to pm (private message) their answers to me ( @Cleoriff ) from as soon as the questions are posted... and up to 23.59 (11.59pm) tomorrow - Thursday 2 April 2020.
No member is to post any answer on the thread.
Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Thursday will be declared void.
No googling, wiki, youtube search for answers.
I hope that our "regulars" quizzers
@gmarkj @jonsie @MI5 @pgn @WispaRed7 @OldFart @Martin-O2 @Marjo and new members who said they would play... @O2Adnan @O2Sean
all members who have played previously, those who have never played before, and new members will take part and 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 on here.
Thank you everyone for your interest and I hope everyone enjoys this April Fool edition of the White Room Thursday Quiz. (Particularly in this mad world we now find ourselves in) 
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Well done, everyone.
Congratulation to @pgn for getting most right - including that stinker question on Prime Ministers.
I`m well pleased to have got 10 right and a Gold Thinker.
To be honest, I knew the sports one - not because it was football but having read, ages ago, a biography of Arthur Conan Doyle and was piece of useless information I remembered.
I was also lucky, and had slight advantage with two questions - I went to Shakespeare`s school and a teacher called me "zany" and said it was a word coined by Shakespeare, which is something I`ve never forgotten; and I wrote a book on transplants so knew it was Barnard at Groot Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, S Africa.
A brilliant quiz @Cleoriff which certain got me thinking about a load of the questions - eve though some of my answers were mad guesses [blooming geography and blooming PM]
And thanks for the great job in compiling the results and giving the reward 
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To be fair @Mi-Amigo I thought the Shakespeare one was hard, considering the Bard made up 1700 new words. I put zany in as I thought that would catch people out. It seems a modern word.
@pgnwould have got 12 correct apart from the fact he 'submitted three answers for the nature question. (Kangaroo, Peregrine falcon and Ostrich) I asked him to choose one. He chose Ostrich!.
The Duke of Wellington question came from Ray. He insisted I left the word soldier out as that 'would have made it too easy' 
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@Anonymous wrote:I've learned a lot.. thanks @Cleoriff
What I've Learned @Anonymous is to leave this to @Mi-Amigo in future
Setting the questions is easy. Sorting out the answers for 10 people and adding stars and thinkers is not.
Even when you have worked them out and stored in One Note you are restricted as you have to add stuff when you paste it over to forum. Ah well.
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@gmarkj wrote:
Bah! Didn't even think of the peregrine falcon.
Damn you and your tricky ways @Cleoriff!
Great quiz this week. Lots of QI style questions there. Just don't get any ideas @Mi-Amigo...
Tricky ways such as Shakespeare, Peregrine Falcon and Wellington are attributed to my other half @gmarkj So he is the one to blame
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Yeah cheers Ray 
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The Duke of Wellington one is a question you have to know the answer to. If you google it, it doesn't come up.
Had I put soldier who was knighted 26 times, that would have helped everyone.
Got that info from here Honours Duke of Wellington
Scroll down to honours.
