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White Room Quiz Mon 22 Feb 2021

Mi-Amigo
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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.

 

Today`s White Room Quiz is eight questions - with two questions on each of these categories 

 

   SCIENCE [one question on Biology; one question on Chemistry]   LITERATURE   MOVIES   EVENTS

 

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]. Please do not post your answers on the thread.

 

I hope our regular quizzers

   @Cleoriff   @pgn   @jonsie   @gmarkj   @MI5   @Anonymous   @Martin-O2   @LukasB   @TheresaV 

   @TallTrees   @Marjo 

and @Cairdeas [who has expressed and interest in the WRQ]

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 SCIENCE 1 - BIOLOGY  Rhinoplasty is the repair of which part of the human body ?

 

Q2 LITERATURE 1   In which Shakespeare play does the character Touchstone appear ?

 

Q3 MOVIES 1          Who directed the 1980 movie "Raging Bull" ?

 

Q4 EVENTS 1           According to tradition, tin is given as a present for which wedding anniversary ?

 

Q5 SCIENCE 2 CHEMISTRY  Which gas is given off by pouring dilute sulphuric acid onto granulated zinc?

 

Q6 LITERATURE 2   Which Charles Dickens` novel features the character Magwitch ?

 

Q7 MOVIES 2   What was the name of the 1994 "western", which co-starred Mel Gibson and

                           Jodie Foster ?

 

Q8 EVENTS 2   In which Cornish town is the Obby Oss Festival, dating from 1803, held ?

 

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 22 February 2021] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tues 23 Feb 2021]

- 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 24 Feb 2021

 

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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                  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 22 Feb 2021] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tues 23 Feb 2021].

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Tues 23 Feb 2021 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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Some people see things as they are and ask "Why?"; I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?"
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Hmm. Whaddya mean, Portwenn doesn't exist? It's got a doctor! ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿคฃ
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THE RESULTS:

 

@MI5 

Q1   correct - awarded star  Q2 correct - awarded star   Q3  correct - awarded star 

Q4   correct - awarded star  Q5 correct - awarded star   Q6 correct - awarded star

Q7  correct - awarded star   Q8 correct - awarded star

plus, for eight correct answers also awarded

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Silver Thinker

 

@LukasB 

Q1 correct - awarded  star Q2 pass  Q3 correct - awarded star Q4 correct - awarded star 

Q5 correct - awarded star  Q6 pass  Q7 pass  Q8 pass  plus, for four correct answers, also awarded

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Red Thinker

 

@Cairdeas 

Q1 correct - awarded  star Q2 correct - awarded star Q3 correct - awarded star 

Q4 correct - awarded star  Q5 pass   Q6 correct - awarded star 

Q7 correct - awarded star  Q8 pass   plus for six correct also awarded

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Bronze Thinker

 

@gmarkj 

Q1 correct - awarded  star Q2 correct - awarded star Q3 correct - awarded star 

Q4 correct - awarded star  Q5 correct - awarded star Q6 correct - awarded star 

Q7 correct - awarded star  Q8 Bude - incorrect plus for more than six correct also awarded

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Bronze Thinker

 

@Cleoriff 

Q1   correct - awarded star  Q2 correct - awarded star   Q3  correct - awarded star 

Q4   correct - awarded star  Q5 correct - awarded star   Q6 correct - awarded star

Q7  correct - awarded star   Q8 correct - awarded star

plus, for eight correct answers also awarded

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Silver Thinker

 

@pgn 

Q1 correct - awarded  star Q2 correct - awarded star Q3 correct - awarded star 

Q4 correct - awarded star  Q5 correct - awarded star Q6 correct - awarded star 

Q7 correct - awarded star  Q8 Portween - incorrect 

plus for more than six correct also awarded

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Bronze Thinker

 

@TheresaV 

Q1 correct - awarded star Q2 pass   Q3 pass  Q4 correct - awarded star 

Q5 pass  Q6 pass  Q7 pass  Q8 correct - awarded star

Total: threestarfor three correct answers

 

@Martin-O2 

Q1 correct - awarded star Q2 pass  Q3 correct - awarded star Q4 5 - incorrect   

Q5 chlorine - incorrect       Q6 pass  Q7 correct - awarded star Q8 pass

Total: threestarfor three correct answers

 

@jonsie 

Q1   correct - awarded star  Q2 correct - awarded star   Q3  correct - awarded star 

Q4   correct - awarded star  Q5 correct - awarded star   Q6 correct - awarded star

Q7  correct - awarded star   Q8 correct - awarded star

plus, for eight correct answers also awarded

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Silver Thinker

 

@TallTrees 

Q1 correct - awarded  star Q2 correct - awarded star Q3 pass   Q4 correct - awarded star 

Q5 correct - awarded star  Q6 correct - awarded star Q7 pass 

Q8 Penzance - incorrect  plus, for more than four correct answers, also awarded

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Red Thinker

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Some people see things as they are and ask "Why?"; I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?"
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THE AWARDS:

 

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Silver Thinker                   = 8 correct answers  @MI5  @Cleoriff  @jonsie 

 

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Bronze Thinker + star     = 7 correct answers   @gmarkj  @pgn 

 

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Bronze Thinker                = 6 correct answers @Cairdeas 

 

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Red Thinker + star         = 5 correct answers  @TallTrees 

 

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Red Thinker                     = 4 correct answers  @LukasB 

 

star star  star                 = 3 correct answers  @TheresaV  @Martin-O2 

 

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

 

Well done

@pgn               - Bronze Thinker + star 

@gmarkj          - Bronze Thinker + star 

@Cairdeas        - Bronze Thinker

@TallTrees        -  Red Thinker + star

@LukasB           -  Red Thinker

@Martin-O2     - star star  star  

@TheresaV          - star star  star

Everyone who took part got at least   - star star  star  

 

I hope everyone enjoyed this White Room Quiz and will take part in today`s White Room Quiz, which will be eight questions with two questions on each of the categories

 

   HISTORY   PLACES   ART   SPORT

 

and will be posted on a separate thread shortly.

 

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

                                                                   

@Mi-Amigo 

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Some people see things as they are and ask "Why?"; I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?"
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Good quiz @Mi-Amigo  and well done @Cairdeas  for getting a bronze thinker on her first attempt.

Off to look at the new quiz...yahoo

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@TheresaV wrote:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO weary


Oh dear @TheresaV  rofl

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Nice to see new blood too slight_smile
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Thank you ๐Ÿ’— glad I got some right lol x

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A nice spread of marks there - well done @Cairdeas for first time to get a Bronze, and @LukasB who out ranked the rest of the Forum management team ๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ‘
And well done everyone else.
Thanks, @Mi-Amigo, good quiz!
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Thank you @pgn  and @Cleoriff , @Mi-Amigo @MI5  x

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