White Room Quiz Mon 07 Feb 2022

[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 eight questions - with two questions on each of these categories

- HISTORY   WORDS     TV    FOOD & DRINK

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 @jonsie @MI5 @gmarkj @TallTrees @BobM @adelphiaUK @Spenny @lewys-gp @RafaC 

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 HISTORY 1 - Who was the Chancellor of England who was beheaded in 1532 by order of Henry VIII for

                           refusing to acknowledge Henry as head of the Church of England ?

Q2 WORDS 1 - Kine, from Middle English word "kye", referred to the plural of which anmal ?

Q3 TV 1 - In which 1989 British TV comedy did Hugh Laurie play Leiut George Colhurst St Barleigh ? 

Q4 FOOD & DRINK 1 - Slivovitz brandy is distilled from which fruit ?

Q5 HISTORY 2 - Who was the captain of The Bounty, victim of mutiny in 1789, and later became Governor

                           of New South Wales from 1806 to 1808 ?

Q6 WORDS 2 - Snickersnee, from Dutch origin, was what kind of impliment ? 

Q7 TV 2 - In British TV medical drama "Casualty", what was the name of the character played by Derek

                 Thompson from the first episode in 1986 ?

Q8 FOOD & DRINK 2 - What is pamplemousse in a French restaurant ?

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 07 Feb 2022] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tues 08 Feb 2022]

- 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 09 Feb 2022

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 07 Feb 2022] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tues 08 Feb 2022].

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Tues 08 Feb 2022 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]

Thanks @Mi-Amigo and well done to all

[pgn]

Nice to see the Social memory of @LukasB lives on yet... 👍

Good game, @Mi-Amigo and well done to all who gave it a shot.

Onwards to today's offering 😨😉

[Mi-Amigo]

AWARDS

Silver Thinker                      = 8 correct - @Cleoriff  @MI5  

Bronze Thinker +             = 7 correct - @pgn 

Red Thinker +  + half   = 5 correct + 1 part correct - @gmarkj 

Red Thinker +                  = 5 correct - @Spenny 

                                  = 3 correct - @TallTrees 

                                      = 2 correct - @lewys-gp 

CONGRATULATIONS to the SILVER THINKERS - @Cleoriff  @MI5 

Well done -

@pgn           = Bronze Thinker + 

@gmarkj      = Red Thinker +  + half 

@Spenny      = Red Thinker + 

@TallTrees    =     

@lewys-gp   =   

Everyone taking part was awarded at least two 

I hope everyone enjoyed this White Room Quiz and will join in today`s White Room Quizzes, which will be eight questions - with two questions on each of these categories

- GEOGRAPHY   SCIENCE    MUSIC    GAMES

which will be posted on a separate thread shortly

Thanks everyone for joining in and making WRQ fun.

[lewys-gp]

Cheers, @Mi-Amigo! Was a difficult one.

[Cleoriff]

Great quiz @Mi-Amigo. Well done everyone 😊

[Mi-Amigo]

Thank you @pgn @MI5 @Cleoriff @lewys-gp 

Pleased you enjoyed the quiz and well done on your awards - even though some found the questions tough

I hope each of you, and everyone else, likes the categories and questions in today`s WRQ which is now up on a separate thread

[TallTrees]

Thanks 😊  @Mi-Amigo 

Learning something every day 😌 

Now I  did like Blackadder 👍 

Well done all 

[gmarkj]

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@pgn wrote:

Nice to see the Social memory of @LukasB lives on yet... 👍

Good game, @Mi-Amigo and well done to all who gave it a shot.

Onwards to today's offering 😨😉

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I drop him in as the answer to name XXX questions that I don't know the answer to!

[pgn]

As good a reason as any, @gmarkj - my method usually involves something the bad word filter transmogrifies... 😁