White Room Quiz Mon 07 Sept 2020

[Mi-Amigo]

Welcome to

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  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] 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  

[Mi-Amigo]

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  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] 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  

[MI5]

I've had 6 different MM's over the years.

[pgn]

I'd call the fictitious element pelopium "Pp", just for divilment 😁

Great quiz, @Mi-Amigo, love the Periodic Table Qs!

Well done, record Silvers this time - and for all who put in answers that miss, but which are wacky by design: 👏👏👏

[Mi-Amigo]

Thank you @pgn 

Pleased you like the Chemistry Periodic Table question, it`s fun finding/creating a WRQ question around them.