White Room Quiz Mon 14 Feb 2022 - "Love" Edition

[Mi-Amigo]

Welcome to

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

Today`s White Room Quiz is part of

‌💌‌ Community LO2VE Week ‌💌‌

with eight "love"-themed questions - with one question on each of these categories

- HISTORY    PEOPLE    LITERATURE    WORDS    MUSIC    MOVIES    ART    GAMES

The White Room Quiz is open to all members.

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

Please do not post your answers on the thread.

I hope our regular quizzers

@Cleoriff  @pgn  @jonsie  @MI5  @gmarkj  @TallTrees @BobM @adelphiaUK @Spenny @lewys-gp @RafaC 

@Martin-O2 and former Community manager @TheresaV who expressed an interest

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.

TODAY`S EIGHT QUESTIONS

Q1 HISTORY - In Norse mythology, who was the Norse goddess of love ?

Q2 PEOPLE - Nell Gwen was the lover/mistress of which King of England ? 

Q3 LITERATURE - Which English poet wrote "How do I love thee; let me count the ways" ? 

Q4 WORDS - Sevmek is the word for love in which language ?

Q5 MUSIC - Which duo had a UK No 1 single with "A World Without Love" in 1964 ?

Q6 MOVIES - In the 2003 movie "Love Actually" what is the first name of the Prime Minister - character

                       played by Hugh Grant ?

Q7 ART - Which surrealist artist painted "The Lovers" [aka "Les Amants"] in 1928 ?

Q8 GAMES - In the game of Scrabble, how many points in total does the word LOVE score

                     - if neither the word nor any letter is NOT played on double or triple word/letter score space ?

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

Those who want to take part must send a pm [private message] to me [Mi-Amigo] with their answers between 12 noon today [Mon 14 Feb 2022] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tues 15 Feb 2022]

- 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 Feb 2022

Each member will be awarded  for each correct answer. In addition, Thinkers will be awarded as follows

THE RULES

Each member must pm [private message] their answers to me [Mi-Amigo] after 12 noon today [Mon 14 Feb 2022] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tues 15 Feb 2022].

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Tues 15 Feb 2022 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  

[Mi-Amigo]

Thank you @TallTrees 

pm with your 8 answers received

[TallTrees]

Thank you 😊 

@Mi-Amigo 

[gmarkj]

Well. 

Don't really think I'm going to do very well with these!

PM on the way @Mi-Amigo 

[Mi-Amigo]

Thank you @gmarkj 

pm with your 8 answers received

Thank you @lewys-gp 

pm with your 8 answers received

[Mi-Amigo]

THE ANSWERS:

Q1 HISTORY - In Norse mythology, who was the Norse goddess of love ?

A1    Freiyja

Q2 PEOPLE - Nell Gwen was the lover/mistress of which King of England ? 

A2    Charles II

Q3 LITERATURE - Which English poet wrote "How do I love thee; let me count the ways" ? 

A3   Elizabeth Barret Browning

Q4 WORDS - Sevmek is the word for love in which language ?

A4    Turkish

Q5 MUSIC - Which duo had a UK No 1 single with "A World Without Love" in 1964 ?

A5    Peter And Gordon

Q6 MOVIES - In the 2003 movie "Love Actually" what is the first name of the Prime Minister - character

                       played by Hugh Grant ?

A6    David

Q7 ART - Which surrealist artist painted "The Lovers" [aka "Les Amants"] in 1928 ?

A7    Rene Magritte

Q8 GAMES - In the game of Scrabble, how many points in total does the word LOVE score

                     - if neither the word nor any letter is NOT played on double or triple word/letter score space ?

A8   7 - L = 1 point; O = 1 point; V = 4 points; E = 1 point

[Mi-Amigo]

THE RESULTS

@RafaC 

Q1 pass  Q2 Edward III - incorrect  Q3 Shakespeare - incorrect  Q4 Albanian - incorrect

Q5 pass  Q6 John - incorrect   Q7 correct - awarded   Q8 15 - incorrect

Total: 1  for one correct answer

@Cleoriff 

Q1 correct - awarded   Q2 correct - awarded   Q3 correct - awarded   Q4 correct - awarded 

Q5 correct - awarded   Q6 correct - awarded   Q7 correct - awarded   Q8 correct - awarded 

plus for 8 correct answers also awarded

Silver Thinker

@Spenny 

Q1 correct - awarded   Q2 correct - awarded   Q3 Wordsworth - incorrect  Q4 correct - awarded 

Q5 pass  Q6 pass  Q7 correct - awarded   Q8 8 - incorrect

plus for 4 correct answers also awarded    

Red Thinker

@MI5 

Q1 correct - awarded   Q2 correct - awarded   Q3 correct - awarded   Q4 correct - awarded 

Q5 correct - awarded   Q6 correct - awarded   Q7 correct - awarded   Q8 correct - awarded 

plus for 8 correct answers also awarded

Silver Thinker

@pgn 

Q1 correct - awarded   Q2 correct - awarded   Q3 correct - awarded   Q4 correct - awarded 

Q5 correct - awarded   Q6 correct - awarded   Q7 correct - awarded   Q8 correct - awarded 

plus for 8 correct answers also awarded

Silver Thinker

@TallTrees 

Q1 correct - awarded   Q2 correct - awarded   Q3 correct - awarded   Q4 Croatia - incorrect

Q5 Everley Brothers - incorrect  Q6 correct - awarded   Q7 Picasso - incorrect  Q8 correct - awarded 

plus for 5 correct answers also awarded    

Red Thinker

@gmarkj 

Q1 correct - awarded   Q2 LukasB - 😂 - incorrect  Q3 TheresaV - 😂 - incorrect  Q4 Polish - incorrect

Q5 Steptoe & Son - 😂 - incorrect  Q6 correct - awarded   Q7 Toby - 😂 - incorrect  Q8 correct - awarded 

Total: 3  for three correct answers

@lewys-gp 

Q1 Tyr - incorrect  Q2 correct - awarded   Q3 Shakespeare - incorrect  Q4 Polish - incorrect

Q5 pass  Q6 Philip - incorrect  Q7 Dali - incorrect  Q8 12 - incorrect

Total: 1  for one correct answer

[pgn]

A good spread of answers today, just shows how hard St. Valentine can be on people 😖😉

Well done all, and thanks for the Love spin on this particular WRQ - we missed the q about that statue in London though 😁

[Mi-Amigo]

AWARDS

Silver Thinker                      = 8 correct - @Cleoriff  @MI5  @pgn 

Red Thinker +                  = 5 correct - @TallTrees 

Red Thinker                         = 4 correct - @Spenny

                                  = 3 correct - @gmarkj 

                                         = 1 correct - @lewys-gp  @RafaC 

CONGRATULATIONS to the SILVER THINKERS - @Cleoriff  @MI5 @pgn 

Well done -

@TallTrees    = Red Thinker + 

@Spenny      = Red Thinker 

@gmarkj      =     

@lewys-gp   = 

@RafaC         = 

Everyone taking part was awarded at least one star

I hope everyone enjoyed this White Room Quiz and will join in today`s White Room Quiz, which will be one of the popular "Odd Questions" editions and will be posted on a separate thread shortly.

Thanks everyone for joining in and making WRQ fun.

[RafaC]

 @lewys-gp and I have got only one start each and since it's the love edition, I guess we could could say we've got one heart each, which makes us part of the 

[pgn]

Good one, @RafaC - going to have that whistling around my head now for a while 👍🤣