White Room Quiz Mon 04 Oct 2021

[Mi-Amigo]

Welcome to

There are two White Room Quizzes each week - one on Monday and one on Wednesday.

Today`s White Room Quiz is one of the popular "Odd Questions" editions.

Instead of eight questions with two questions from each of one of four categories, today`s White Room Quiz is eight questions with one question on each of these subjects -

   INITIALS    MAPS    CARS    FLAGS    AIRPORT CODES    MOTORWAYS     CLOTHES     MEASUREMENTS

The White Room Quiz is open to all members.

Those wishing to take part must pm me - @Mi-Amigo  - their answers between 12 noon today [Monday] and 11.59pm tomorrow [Tuesday].

Please do not post your answers on the thread.

I hope our regular quizzers

  @Cleoriff   @pgn   @MI5   @BobM   @gmarkj   @TallTrees   @lewys-gp   @RafaC  @Martin-O2  @jonsie  

and any member, who has taken part in the past or has never taken part, and any new members will join in with today`s White Room Quiz.

TODAY`S EIGHT QUESTIONS

Q1 INITIALS   The famous ship the Titanic was actually RMS Titanic. What did the initials RMS stand for ?

Q2 MAPS       On an Ordnance Survey map what does MP indicate ?

Q3 CARS        Which car company manufactured the Bluebird and Sunny in the 1970s ?

Q4 FLAGS      Which country`s flag includes a depiction of a bunch of bananas ?

Q5 AIRPORT CODES  BHD is the airport code for which airport ?

Q6 MOTORWAYS  Which motorway runs for 33 miles [53km] from west of Edinburgh to Dunblane, Scotland ?

Q7 CLOTHES  What type of clothes was a banyan worn by men in the 18th century ?

Q8 MEASUREMENTS  How many inches equals 12.7 cm ?  

The White Room Quiz is open to all members of the Community.

Those who want to take part must send a pm [private message] to me [Mi-Amigo] with their answers between 12 noon today [Mon 04 Oct 2021] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tues 05 Oct 2021]

- allowing 36 hours to pm your answers.

Please do not post your answers on the thread.

The answers - and results for each player taking part - will be posted on morning of Wed 06 Oct 2021

Each member will be awarded  for each correct answer. In addition, Thinkers will be awarded as follows

THE RULES

Each member must pm [private message] their answers to me [Mi-Amigo] after 12 noon today [Mon 04 Oct 2021] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tues 05 Oct 2021].

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Tues 05 Oct 2021 will be declared void.

No googling, wiki, youtube search for answers.

The White Room Quiz is open to all members.

New members, who have recently joined the Community, and members who have not taken part before, are welcome to 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.

I hope everyone likes the questions in today`s White Room Quiz, and finds this WRQ fun.

Good luck, everyone

@Mi-Amigo  

[MI5]

[pgn]

Incoming, @Mi-Amigo -->

[TallTrees]

Putting in my Answers now @Mi-Amigo 

Get well soon ~ bye for now TT

[Mi-Amigo]

Thank you @MI5 @pgn and @TallTrees 

like the gifs

pm from each of you with your 8 answers received yesterday well before the deadline

[Mi-Amigo]

THE ANSWERS:

Q1 INITIALS   The famous ship the Titanic was actually RMS Titanic. What did the initials RMS stand for ?

A1   Royal Mail Ship

Q2 MAPS       On an Ordnance Survey map what does MP indicate ?

A2   Mile Post. One quizzer gave the answer Mooring Point. On checking, Mooring Point is normally indicated by MgP but on occasions [such as limit of space] MP is used, so I`ll accept Mooring Point as a correct answer and award a  

Q3 CARS        Which car company manufactured the Bluebird and Sunny in the 1970s ?

A3   Nissan

Q4 FLAGS      Which country`s flag includes a depiction of a bunch of bananas ?

A4   Fiji

Q5 AIRPORT CODES  BHD is the airport code for which airport ?

A5   George Best Belfast Airport

Q6 MOTORWAYS  Which motorway runs for 33 miles [53km] from west of Edinburgh to Dunblane, Scotland ?

A6   M9

Q7 CLOTHES  What type of clothes was a banyan worn by men in the 18th century ?

A7   nightgown, or vest or undershirt, and also precursor to morning gown, dressing gown.

Q8 MEASUREMENTS  How many inches equals 12.7 cm ? 

A8   5 inches          

[Mi-Amigo]

THE RESULTS:

@RafaC 

Q1 pass   Q2 Meridian Point - incorrect   Q3 Cadillac - incorrect   Q4 pass   Q5 pass

Q6 West Highland Way - incorrect   Q7 bandana - incorrect   Q8 correct - awarded 

Total one  for one correct answer.

@Cleoriff 

Q1 correct - awarded   Q2 correct - awarded    Q3 correct - awarded   Q4 correct - awarded 

Q5 correct - awarded   Q6 correct - awarded   Q7 correct - awarded   Q8 correct - awarded 

plus for 8 correct answers also awarded

Silver Thinker

@gmarkj 

Q1 correct - awarded   Q2 correct - awarded   Q3 correct - awarded   Q4 Jamaica - incorrect

Q5 Brighton & Hove - incorrect  Q6 correct - awarded   Q7 correct - awarded 

Q8 correct - awarded 

plus for 6 correct answers also awarded

Bronze Thinker

@BobM 

Q1 Royal Merchant Ship - incorrect  Q2 Mooring Point - accepted as correct - awarded 

Q3 correct - awarded   Q4 correct - awarded   Q5 correct - awarded  Q6 correct - awarded 

Q7 correct - awarded   Q8 correct - awarded 

plus for 7 correct answers also awarded

Bronze Thinker

@MI5

Q1 correct - awarded   Q2 correct - awarded    Q3 correct - awarded    Q4 correct - awarded 

Q5 correct - awarded   Q6 correct - awarded   Q7 correct - awarded   Q8 correct - awarded 

plus for 8 correct answers also awarded

Silver Thinker

@pgn 

Q1 correct - awarded   Q2 pass   Q3 correct - awarded   Q4 correct - awarded  

Q5 correct - awarded   Q6 correct - awarded    Q7 correct - awarded   Q8 correct - awarded 

plus for 7 correct answers also awarded

Bronze Thinker

@TallTrees 

Q1 correct - awarded   Q2 correct - awarded   Q3 correct - awarded   Q4 pass

Q5 correct - awarded   Q6 correct - awarded   Q7 correct - awarded  Q8 correct - awarded 

plus for 7 correct answers also awarded

Bronze Thinker

[MI5]

Well done all and thanks

[Mi-Amigo]

AWARDS

Silver Thinker            = 8 correct - @Cleoriff  @MI5 

Bronze Thinker +  = 7 correct - @BobM  @pgn  @TallTrees 

Bronze Thinker         = 6 correct - @gmarkj 

                               = 1 correct - @RafaC 

CONGRATULATIONS TO  THE SILVER THINKERS - @Cleoriff  @pgn 

Well done

@BobM      Bronze Thinker + 

@pgn          Bronze Thinker + 

@TallTrees  Bronze Thinker + 

@gmarkj     Bronze Thinker

@RafaC       

I hope everyone enjoyed this White Room Quiz and will join in today`s White Room Quiz which will be

8 questions with two on each of these categories 

- HISTORY   NATURE   MUSIC    FOOD & DRINK

which will be posted on a separate thread shortly. 

[TallTrees]

Great a Bronze +        😀 

Thank you for taking the time to mark the answers and glad  you were feeling better and able to do that for us @Mi-Amigo 

Well done everyone 

[TallTrees]

I'll be in later to view the History (not bad there) Nature ok Music possible Food & Drink my favs. but doesn't mean it will go well for me entirely @Mi-Amigo  but I will give it a shot.