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White Room Quiz Mon 07 Sept 2020

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

Each White Room Quiz will have eight questions - with two questions from four categories. 

 

The White Room Quiz is open to all members.

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

 

I hope our regular quizzers

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

 

 O2 Community managers @Marjo @Martin-O2 [ @LukasB is on holiday] and O2 Guru @O2Karl 

 

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.

 

Over the weekend, I have selected eight questions - with questions from each of these cateories

 

    LITERATURE   SCIENCE [one Biology; one Chemistry]    MUSIC

and two ODD questions - one on MOTOR CARS; one on CURRENCY

 

One of the questions is a QI-style question in which the answer is not what most people think.

 

TODAY`S EIGHT QUESTIONS

 

Q1 [LITERATURE - 1] Wackford Squeers is a character in which Charles Dickens novel ?   

      

Q2 [SCIENCE - 1 BIOLOGY] Where in the human body are the hypothenar muscles ?

 

Q3 [MUSIC - 1]  The hydraulis, invented 246BC, was an early version of which musical instrument ?

 

Q4 [ODD- 1 MOTOR CARS] Which British motor car was the first to sell 1,000,000 ?

 

Q5 [LITERATURE - 2]  Samuel Clements was the real name of which author ? 

 

Q6 [SCIENCE - 2 CHEMISTRY]  Which of the following is NOT a chemical symbol for an element in the

                                                   periodic table -  Ge   Pe   Te    Xe ?

 

Q7 [MUSIC - 2]   Who recorded albums entitled "Six Wives Of Henrey VIII" and "Journey To The Centre

                             Of The Earth" ? 

 

Q8 [ODD -2 CURRENCY]  Hryvnia is the currency of which country? 

 

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

 

Those who want to take part must pm [private message] me [Mi-Amigo] with their answers between 12 noon today [Mon 07 September] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tuesday 08 September]

- 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 September

 

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

 

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Each member must pm [private message] their answers to me [Mi-Amigo] after 12 noon today [Mon 07 September 2020] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tues 08 September 2020].

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Tuesday 08 September 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.

 

Thank you everyone for your interest and for making the quiz so popular.

I hope everyone enjoys today`s White Room Quiz, and find it fun.

Good luck, everyone

 

@Mi-Amigo  

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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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Awww @jonsie Cat

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Mi-Amigo
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Thank you @Anonymous 

pm with your eight answers received

 

Thank you @jonsie 

pm with your eight answers received.

You will be missed @jonsie . Hope all goes well for you.  

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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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Elementary, my dear Squeers (!)... Or not.
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Thank you @pgn 

pm with your eight answers received

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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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Thank you @gmarkj 

pm with your eight answers received

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

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Ooh interesting questions this time @Mi-Amigo , I think I might know one of the answers, I'm 45% sure. grin I'll drop you a PM shortly! 

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Thank you @Marjo - pleased you found the questions interesting

pm with your eight answers received

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

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