White Room Quiz Mon 14 Dec 2020 - Page 5

Mi-Amigo · ‎14-12-2020

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 from each of four categories

PEOPLE SCIENCE [one on CHEMISTRY; one on BIOLOGY]; MUSIC SPORT

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.

TODAY`S EIGHT QUESTIONS

Q1 PEOPLE 1 Who was Brad Pitt married to before Angelina Jolie?

Q2 SCIENCE 1 CHEMISTRY Cm is the chemical symbol for which element?

Q3 MUSIC 1 LYRICS Which UK No 1 single begins with the lyrics

"I feel it in my fingers; I feel it in my toes"?

Q4 SPORT 1 In which city is the Dutch football team Feyenoord based?

Q5 PEOPLE 2 Who did Princess Anne marry in 1973?

Q6 SCIENCE 2 BIOLOGY Which childhood disease affects the parotid salivary gland?

Q7 MUSIC 2 Who had a UK No 1 single with "Seasons In The Sun" in 1974?

Q8 SPORT 2 At which British horse racing course is The Oaks run?

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 14 December] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tuesday 15 December]

- 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 16 December

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 14 December 2020] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tues 15 December 2020].

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Tuesday 15 December 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?"
Robert Kennedy.

Cleoriff · ‎16-12-2020

@pgn wrote:
Great quiz for the first WRQ of the week this week, @Mi-Amigo - and nearly all Thinkers too 👍.
Not sure how much the lack of Notifications will affect the 2nd WRQ of the week - the flow of Community/Forum e-mails has dried up for me this morning, and many Notifications are stale (strangely, not the WRQ notifications - but no e-mails from them either 😢)

Great Quiz @Mi-Amigo and well done everyone.

@pgn the flow of emails from here dried up for me on Monday night...and nothing has changed at all!

Veritas Numquam Perit

Mi-Amigo · ‎16-12-2020

AWARDS:

Silver Thinker = for eight correct answers - @Cleoriff @MI5 @pgn

Bronze Thinker + = for seven correct answers - @jonsie @gmarkj

Red Thinker + = for five correct answers - @Anonymous

Red Thinker = for four correct answers - @Martin-O2

= for three correct - @LukasB

CONGRATULATIONS to the Silver Thinkers - @Cleoriff @MI5 @pgn

Well done

@jonsie - Bronze Thinker +

@gmarkj - Bronze Thinker +

@Anonymous - Red Thinker +

@Martin-O2 - Red Thinker

@LukasB -

Well done everyone. All those taking part got at least three stars.

I hope everyone enjoyed the quiz and will take part in today`s White Room Quiz, which is the

White Room Seasonal Quiz 1 - The 12 ?? Of Xmas

part of 🎅🏻 🎄 Christmas On The Community

which will be posted on a separate thread shortly.

Thanks everyone for taking part and for making the White Room Quiz fun.

@Mi-Amigo

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

MI5 · ‎16-12-2020

Well done everyone and thanks

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Mi-Amigo · ‎16-12-2020

Thank you @pgn @LukasB @Cleoriff @MI5

Pleased you enjoyed this quiz.

I hope that the problems with e-mail notifications does not have too much of an affect on today`s Quiz, which will be up on a separate thread shortly - which will be slightly different to the normal WRQ...

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

Anonymous · ‎16-12-2020

Whilst drinking mint tea in the hotel conservatory Cadmium came to mind for the Chemistry question (I have yet to look up the answers)

I was really quite sure I had Bobby Goldsborough answer nailed, but struggled with the spelling

Tonsilitis is wrong then

I was kinda hopeful of obtaining, for the 1st time, a Silver Thinker award

Not to be

Now I shall look up the answers

Enjoyed this quiz @Mi-Amigo Thank you for compiling it

pgn · ‎16-12-2020

@Anonymous wrote:
Whilst drinking mint tea in the hotel conservatory Cadmium came to mind for the Chemistry question (I have yet to look up the answers)

Cd is Cadmium, one whose salts give off a brick-red colour in a flame.

Cm is Curium - the only other letter in the element name not already used for a different element is i! (Cu - Copper, Cr - Chromium, Ci - not used)

There are many more elements starting with "C", probably the most common letter when symbols are sorted alphabetically, closely folowed by N, I suspect.

I quite enjoyed inorganic chemistry at school, @Anonymous - and anything that flashed or banged

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jonsie · ‎16-12-2020

Who knew there was a curium 😞
Evidently a few!

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Cleoriff · ‎16-12-2020

@jonsie wrote:
Who knew there was a curium 😞
Evidently a few!

One of the few I do know @jonsie

Veritas Numquam Perit

MI5 · ‎16-12-2020

Atomic number 96....
Had to learn the PT by heart when at school and it's stuck in my mind now.

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Anonymous · ‎16-12-2020

Learning by rote sticks ... think times tables @pgn @MI5 @Cleoriff @jonsie @Mi-Amigo

I enjoyed Chemistry at senior school ... loved the experiments best ... are they allowed now in schools?

Have GCE grade 4 in the subject ... graded 1-10 ... 7-10 was a fail ... around about 50 years ago!