WHITE ROOM QUIZ - "Fun", "Comedy", "Humour" themed - Page 4

Mi-Amigo · ‎07-04-2020

Welcome to this week`s

As mentioned it the Advance Notice [ see here ], this week`s White Room Quiz is slightly different.

To try and slightly lighten the mood in these dark and doomy days, this week`s White Room Quiz will be a themed one - with the usual EIGHT questions - but each question, in some way, connected to the theme of "fun", "comedy", and "humour".

The questions have been posted earlier than usual to give everyone as long as possible to think about the answers.

PLEASE NOTE AMENDED TIMES BELOW FOR SENDING YOUR PM'S WITH ANSWERS

The White Room Quiz is open to all members

I hope our regular quizzers

@Cleoriff @pgn @jonsie @MI5 @OldFart @gmarkj @WispaRed7

O2 staff - @Marjo @Martin-O2 @O2Adnan @O2Sean

and any member, who has taken part in the past or has never taken part, and new members

will join in with this week`s White Room Quiz.

THIS WEEK`S EIGHT QUESTIONS

Q1 [SPORT] Where, in America, is the F.U.N. Stadium [city and State] ?

Q2 [MUSIC] Which band, with The Beach Boys, had a UK Top 30 hit in 1996 with "Fun, Fun, Fun"?

Q3 [LITERATURE] In which decade was the comic "Fun" sold in London ?

Q4 [TV] What was the title of the first episode of Ch4 Comic Strip Presents, featuring "lashings of ginger beer"?

Q5 [FILM] What was the name of the character played by Stanley Holloway in the Ealing Comedy "Passport To Pimlico" [which incidentally is my - Mi-Amigo`s - favourite film] ?

Q6 [PLACES] Where, in America, is the National Comedy Hall of Fame [town and State] ?

Q7 [HISTORY] The Ancient Greeks believed the human body contained four humours. Three were - blood, yellow bile and black bile. What was the fourth humour?

Q8 [MEDICINE] Aqueous and vitreous humours are in chambers in which part of the human body ?

The White Room Thursday Quiz will be open to all members of the Community.

Those who want to take part can pm [private message] me [Mi-Amigo] with their answers between 00.01 [one minute after midnight] on Wednesday 08 April and 23.59 [11.59pm] on Thursday 09 April

- allowing 48 hours to pm your answers.

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 star 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] on Wed 08 April and 23.59 [11.59pm] on Thursday 09 April 2020.

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Thursday 09 April will be declared void.

No googling, wiki, youtube search for answers.

As this is a "Fun" themed week, there is no QI-style question but a couple of questions are "tricky".

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

Some people see things as they are and ask "Why?"; I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?"
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Mi-Amigo · ‎09-04-2020

@Martin-O2

Thanks. Pm with your eight answers received.

Some people see things as they are and ask "Why?"; I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?"
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Anonymous · ‎09-04-2020

Hello @Mi-Amigo I only know one answer so I shall give it a miss this week, but will be interested in the answers

Mi-Amigo · ‎09-04-2020

Hi @Anonymous

You could pm me your one answer if you like and if it`s right you`ll get a #just saying

Some people see things as they are and ask "Why?"; I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?"
Robert Kennedy.

pgn · ‎09-04-2020

@Anonymous wrote:
Hello @Mi-Amigo I only know one answer so I shall give it a miss this week, but will be interested in the answers

Humour him, @Anonymous, it's all a bit of harmless fun. 🤣

The funniest answer, even if completely wrong, could raise a smile - and we all need them these days.

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jonsie · ‎09-04-2020

It may just be the one answer that no one knows Jane.

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Mi-Amigo · ‎09-04-2020

Thanks @pgn

@jonsie wrote:
It may just be the one answer that no one knows Jane.

Very good point @jonsie .

@Anonymous [Jane] did that in two earlier quizzes when she got an answer others didn`t.

Some people see things as they are and ask "Why?"; I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?"
Robert Kennedy.

Mi-Amigo · ‎10-04-2020

THE ANSWERS:

Q1 [SPORT] Where, in America, is the F.U.N. Stadium [city and State] ?

A1: Houston, Texas

Q2 [MUSIC] Which band, with The Beach Boys, had a UK Top 30 hit in 1996 with "Fun, Fun, Fun"?

A2: Status Quo

Q3 [LITERATURE] In which decade was the comic "Fun" sold in London ?

A3: This was the hardest question. The answer is NOT 1930s when comic books first appeared in USA; nor 1950s and 1960s when such as "Film Fun" and "Film Annual" appeared in UK; not 1990s when some older comics re-appeared and new ones appeared in UK.

The correct answer is 1880s. Fun was satirical [similar to Punch] but with articles and cartoon strip similar to Hotspur in 1950s. Fun became the centre of controversy in 1888 when it published a cartoon strip suggesting Jack the Ripper was a Kensington doctor. Further to this, a renown London psychologist said the cartoon strip was true, resulting in Scotland Yard investigating and dismissed the theory. source: Metropolitan Police "Jack the Ripper" files at National Archive, Kew. I have a copy of the cartoon, purchased when research a book on Jack the Ripper.

Q4 [TV] What was the title of the first episode of Ch4 Comic Strip Presents, featuring "lashings of ginger beer"?

A4: Five Go Mad In Dorset

Q5 [FILM] What was the name of the character played by Stanley Holloway in the Ealing Comedy "Passport To Pimlico" [which incidentally is my - Mi-Amigo`s - favourite film] ?

A5: Arthur Pemberton

Q6 [PLACES] Where, in America, is the National Comedy Hall of Fame [town and State] ?

A6: Holiday, Florida

Q7 [HISTORY] The Ancient Greeks believed the human body contained four humours. Three were - blood, yellow bile and black bile. What was the fourth humour?

A7: phlegm

Q8 [MEDICINE] Aqueous and vitreous humours are in chambers in which part of the human body ?

A8: the eye

Some people see things as they are and ask "Why?"; I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?"
Robert Kennedy.

Cleoriff · ‎10-04-2020

Well that FUN magazine one was a right swizz.

I think from the answer and your explanation @Mi-Amigo there were a few guesses going on? Mine certainly was a guess.

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MI5 · ‎10-04-2020

Mine too....

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pgn · ‎10-04-2020

My guess of the 90s wasn't too far off then... 🤔

Shame I was thinking a century later 🤣🙄

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