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White Room Quiz Mon 09 Nov 2020

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

Normally the White Room Quiz has eight questions - with two questions from four categories, but today`s White Room Quiz is an ever-popular "Odd Questions" edition - with eight questions which don`t fall in the usual categories but, instead, there in one question on each of the following subjects

 

  CURRENCY  PIRATES  INITIALS  CODES  FLAGS  SAYINGS  SIGNS and one "LEFT-OVER" question

 

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   @Anonymous 

and O2 Community managers @Marjo   @Martin-O2   @LukasB 

 

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.

 

Please note: there is no QI-style question in which the answer is not what most people think.

Some of the questions are rated as "easier", others as "not-so-easy".

 

TODAY`S EIGHT QUESTIONS

 

Q1 CURRENCY    The groat, introduced in England in 1280, was worth how many old pennies ? 

      

Q2 PIRATES          Pirates in the 18th century subjected sailors of ships they captured to keelhauling.

                             What, briefly, did keelhauling involve ?

 

Q3 INITIALS         What do the initials of the United States` "C.I.A" stand for ?

 

Q4 CODES            According to the British Highway Code, what is the stopping distance of a vehicle

                              travelling at 30mph ? [answer can be in metres or feet]

 

Q5 FLAGS             Which country`s flag has a 12-pointed white star, below a gold line, on a blue field ? 

 

Q6 SAYINGS         What are the two missing words from this well-known saying

                               Don`t kill the ----- that lays the ------ egg ?

 

Q7 SIGNS             What shape is the road traffic sign for GIVE WAY on British road ? 

 

Q8 "LEFT-OVER"  - question "left-over" from the "Bonfire Night" edition of the WRQ on Wedneday

                              Who was the firework the "Catherine Wheel" named after

 

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 09 November] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tuesday 10 November]

- 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 11 November

 

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 09 November 2020] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tues 10 November 2020].

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Tuesday 10 November 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  

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Bloody Nauru!! Who knew? rofl  @MI5 and @pgn  did, so congrats to you both. 

Well done everyone and thanks for a great quiz @Mi-Amigo yahoo

@pgnCorrect re keelhauling. It was mentioned more than once in P o Caribbean wink

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Thank you @Cleoriff 

Pleased you enjoyed the quiz and well done, you only just missed out on the Silver Thinker [because of Nauru].

I was impressed that everyone knew the answer to the pirates` keelhauling question.

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HAHAHAHAHHA damn!!!!! @Mi-Amigo this was a very good one though.

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Thank you @LukasB 

Pleased you thought the quiz was a very good one, even though you just missed out on the Red Thinker.

Maybe you`ll find the questions in today`s WRQ [on separate thread] a little easier??

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Really happy with my score! Thanks as always for running the quiz @Mi-Amigo cool

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Thank you @Martin-O2 

Good to hear you are pleased with your score. Five questions correct is good and you only just missed out on the Bronze Thinker.

Maybe you`ll get a Bronze Thinker for your answers to today`s quiz which is now up on another thread.  

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It's good to have you back @Mi-Amigo smiling

Pleased with my Red Thinker award

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Thank you @Anonymous

It`s good to be back

Glad you are pleased with your Red Thinker and 2 half-stars - very close to Bronze Thinker [if the 2 half stars had been full stars.

Hope you like questions in today`s quiz.

 

Thanks @jonsie 

I`m feeling much better now and have had a good day today.

Pleased you like this quiz and well done on getting a Bronze Thinker, only just missing out on the Silver because of the flag question [which was rated as "difficult"].

Hope you like today`s categories and questions.

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