White Room Quiz Mon 09 Nov 2020 - Page 4

Mi-Amigo · ‎09-11-2020

Welcome to

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

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 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

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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Cleoriff · ‎11-11-2020

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

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

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

Veritas Numquam Perit

Mi-Amigo · ‎11-11-2020

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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Robert Kennedy.

LukasB · ‎11-11-2020

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

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Mi-Amigo · ‎11-11-2020

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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Martin-O2 · ‎11-11-2020

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

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Mi-Amigo · ‎11-11-2020

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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Anonymous · ‎11-11-2020

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

Pleased with my Red Thinker award

jonsie · ‎11-11-2020

Hope you're feeling better @Mi-Amigo

Good game,good game!

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Mi-Amigo · ‎11-11-2020

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.

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