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White Room Quiz - Mon 17 Aug 2020

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Welcome to

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

Each White Room Quiz will have eight questions - with two questions from four categories. 

 

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  @WispaRed7 

 

 O2 Community managers @Marjo @Martin-O2  @LukasB  and O2 Guru @O2Karl 

 

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.

 

I hope everyone likes some, if not all, the questions in this quiz

Today`s WRQ questions are two questions from each of these cateories

 

    GEOGRAPHY   SPACE   LITERATURE   TV

 

Please note: there is no QI-style question [where the answer is not what most people think] this time.

 

TODAY`S EIGHT QUESTIONS

 

Q1 [GEOGRAPHY - 1] Which is the third largest of the Channel Islands ?   

      

Q2 [SPACE - 1] Who was the American astronaut who made the last solo [one-man] space flight ?

 

Q3 [LITERATURE - 1] In which Shakespeare play does the word "rhinosaurus" appear ?

 

Q4 [TV - 1] Which British TV game show features "ghost drops" and "riders" ?

 

Q5 [GEOGRAPHY - 2] In which British county is the town of Stockton-on-Tees ? 

 

Q6 [SPACE - 2] Titan is a moon of which planet in our solar system ?

 

Q7 [LITERATURE - 2] Who wrote the short story "The Pit And The Pendulum" published in 1842 ? 

 

Q8 [TV -2] What is the first name of each of the Rich brothers who appear with Charlie Dimmock in the

                    British TV show "Garden Rescue" ? 

 

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 17 August] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tuesday 18 August]

- 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 19 August.

 

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 17 August 2020] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tues 18 August 2020].

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Tuesday 18 August 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.

 

Thank you everyone for your interest and for making the quiz so popular.

I hope everyone enjoys today`s White Room Quiz, and find it fun.

Good luck, everyone

 

@Mi-Amigo  

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Love the animation @pgn 

pm with your eight answers received 

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@jonsie wrote:

Yabadaba do >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

GIF fred flintstone - animated GIF on GIFER - by Shakasa


Thanks @jonsie 

but no pm received Don't know

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@Mi-Amigo wrote:

@jonsie wrote:

Yabadaba do >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

GIF fred flintstone - animated GIF on GIFER - by Shakasa


Thanks @jonsie 

but no pm received Don't know


Wot???!!!

Mm I'll resend it....

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Thanks @jonsie 

worked this time

pm with your eight answers received

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@jonsie wrote:

Dunno what went wrong. it wasn't in my sent items so a rewrite necessary Smiley Mad


Very odd. Your original pm wasn`t in pm box and not in e-mail notifications.

Resend came thru no probs... 

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Thank you @MI5 

pm with your eight answers received

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