White Room Quiz Mon 17 Feb 2025

[Mi-Amigo]

Welcome to

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

Today`s WRQ is 8 questions, with 2 questions on each of these categories:

   PLACES    SCIENCE    WORDS    FOOD & DRINK

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 [Mon] and

03.00am Wednesday morning.

Please do not post your answers on the thread.

I hope our regular quizzers

@Cleoriff @pgn @gmarkj @jonsie @MI5 @TallTrees @BobM @Oxonian @Dave-O2 

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 PLACES 1 - What was the name of the "Lost City" in Jordan, built in 312BCE ?

Q2 SCIENCE 1 - Gregor Mendel discovered the laws of inheritance by experiments on what plants ?

Q3 WORDS 1 - "cly", mentioned in 1736 dictionary, referred to what ?

Q4 FOOD & DRINK 1 - Turk`s turban is a variety of which foodstuff ?

Q5 PLACES 2 - Yaounde is the capital city of which country ?

Q6 SCIENCE 2 - Where is the human body of babies is the fontanelle ?

Q7 WORDS 2 - "grannam", mentioned in 1736 dictionary, referred to which crop ?

Q8 FOOD & DRINK 2 - Persian apple is the former Roman name for which fruit ?

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

Each member must pm [private message] their answers to me [Mi-Amigo] after 12 noon today [Mon 17 Feb 2025] and before 03.00am Wed 19 Feb 2025.

Please do not post your answers on the thread.

The answers - and results for each player taking part - will be posted on Wed 19 Feb 2025.

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 17 Feb

2025] and before 03.00am on Wed 19 Feb 2025.

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 03.00am on Wed 19 Feb 2025 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]

THE ANSWERS

Q1 PLACES 1 - What was the name of the "Lost City" in Jordan, built in 312BCE ?

A1  Petra

Q2 SCIENCE 1 - Gregor Mendel discovered the laws of inheritance by experiments on what plants ?

A2   peas

Q3 WORDS 1 - "cly", mentioned in 1736 dictionary, referred to what ?

A3   money

Q4 FOOD & DRINK 1 - Turk`s turban is a variety of which foodstuff ?

A4   squash

Q5 PLACES 2 - Yaounde is the capital city of which country ?

A5   Cameroon

Q6 SCIENCE 2 - Where is the human body of babies is the fontanelle ?

A6    head

Q7 WORDS 2 - "grannam", mentioned in 1736 dictionary, referred to which crop ?

A7    corn

Q8 FOOD & DRINK 2 - Persian apple is the former Roman name for which fruit ?

A8    peach

[Mi-Amigo]

THE RESULTS

@MI5 

Q1 correct   Q2 correct   Q3 correct   Q4 correct  .

Q5 correct   Q6 correct   Q7 correct   Q8 correct  .

plus for 8 correct answers also awarded

Silver Thinker

@Oxonian 

Q1 correct   Q2 correct   Q3 correct   Q4 pepper - incorrect .

Q5 correct   Q6 pass           Q7 pass            Q8 apple - incorrect .

plus for 4 correct answers

Red Thinker

@jonsie 

Q1 correct   Q2 correct   Q3 correct   Q4 correct  .

Q5 correct   Q6 correct   Q7 correct   Q8 correct  .

plus for 8 correct answers also awarded

Silver Thinker

@pgn 

Q1 correct   Q2 correct   Q3 correct   Q4 correct  .

Q5 correct   Q6 correct   Q7 correct   Q8 correct  .

plus for 8 correct answers also awarded

Silver Thinker

@Cleoriff 

Q1 correct   Q2 correct   Q3 correct   Q4 correct  .

Q5 correct   Q6 correct   Q7 correct   Q8 correct  .

plus for 8 correct answers also awarded

Silver Thinker

@Dave-O2 

Q1 Incus - incorrect  Q2 pass  Q3 pass                  Q4 fruit - sorry need name .

Q5 correct   Q6 correct   Q7 rice - incorrect  Q8 apple - incorrect .

Total - 2 stars for 2 correct

@gmarkj 

Q1 Bob - incorrect  Q2 correct   Q3 pass                      Q4  bread - incorrect .

Q5 pass                   Q6 correct   Q7 wheat - incorrect  Q8 correct  .

Total - 3 stars fro 3 correct .

[Mi-Amigo]

AWARDS

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

Red Thinker                                    = 4 correct - @Oxonian 

3 stars                                             = 3 correct - @gmarkj  

2 stars                                             = 2 correct - @Dave-O2 

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE SILVER THINKERS - @MI5 @jonsie @pgn @Cleoriff 

Well done

@Oxonian  - Red Thinker

@gmarkj    - 3 stars

@Dave-O2  - 2 stars

Everyone taking part was awarded at least 2 stars.

Thank you everyone for taking part and making the WRQ fun.

I hope everyone enjoyed the quiz and will join in today`s quiz of 8 questions with 2 questions on each of the following categories

   PEOPLE     LITERATURE    ART    GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

and will be posted on a separate thread shortly. 

[pgn]

A decent turn-out and a spread of marks - well done all. Those old words are a bit of a brain-buster....

[Cleoriff]

Well done everyone. Thanks @Mi-Amigo 

[MI5]

Thanks @Mi-Amigo 

Well done all.

[Mi-Amigo]

Thank you @pgn @Cleoriff @MI5 

Pleased you enjoyed the quiz and well done on your awards

[Oxonian]

Thank you @Mi-Amigo for organising ; some tricky questions therein. I suppose they make it fun. 

Well done all. 👍

[Mi-Amigo]

Thank you @Oxonian 

Yeh, a couple of tricky ones this time.

Well done on your award.