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White Room Quiz Mon 16 Nov 2020

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

Today`s White Room Quiz has eight questions - with two questions from each of four categories

 

  NATURE   SCIENCE [one question on PHYSICS; one on BIOLOGY]    MUSIC    MOVIES

 

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 NATURE - 1 What type of animal is a vmi-vmi ? 

      

Q2 SCIENCE - 1 PHYSICS  Which English physicist discovered the neutron ?

 

Q3 MUSIC - 1   Which Queen UK single ended with the band singing "I do like to be besides the seaside"?

 

Q4 MOVIES - 1 What was the name of the character played by Eddie Murphy in the 1984 movie "Beverley Hills Cop" ?

 

Q5 NATURE - 2 A smolt is what type of fish ? 

 

Q6 SCIENCE - 2 BIOLOGY  Pyorrhoea is an inflammation of which part of the human body ?

 

Q7 MUSIC - 2    Velma Kelly is a character in which musical ? 

 

Q8 MOVIES - 2  Who played the title role in the 2004 movie "Van Helsing" ?

 

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 16 November] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tuesday 17 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 18 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 16 November 2020] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tues 17 November 2020].

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Tuesday 17 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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There's one there that will be a total guess !
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@MI5 wrote:
There's one there that will be a total guess !

@MI5 . Your guess in answer to one of the questions in the last WRQ paid off, so "Good luck" with your guess at that one question in today`s quiz.

Look forward to pm with your answers any time after 12 noon today.

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I KNOW THE ANSWER TO THE PHYSICS QUESTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just thought I'd mention it. rofl

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It's not the Physics question I am worried about 😞
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@Cleoriff wrote:

I KNOW THE ANSWER TO THE PHYSICS QUESTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just thought I'd mention it. rofl


Surprised @Cleoriff . I was thinking this is probably one of the hardest PHYSICS questions we`ve had.

Look forward to pm with your eight answers. Good luck

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That particular question was one my husband set for a recent quiz which was cancelled due to the lockdown @Mi-Amigo 

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Nature. Pffft! Yer 'avin a larff! 

 

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No clue on others.
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