White Room Quiz Mon 22 Nov 2021

[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 eight questions with two questions from each of these categories -

   HISTORY    GEOGRAPHY   LITERATURE    MUSIC

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  @BobM  @TallTrees  @gmarkj  @lewys-gp  @RafaC  @Martin-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 HISTORY 1  Which Roman Emperor banned laughing and bathing for a year after the death of his sister ?

Q2 GEOGRAPHY 1  Gangkhar Peninsular is on the border of China and which other country ?

Q3 LITERATURE 1  Benn Gunn and Jim Hawkins are characters in which high seas adventure novel ? 

Q4 MUSIC 1  "Experience" was the debut album, released in 1992, by which band ?

Q5 HISTORY 2  During which war did the Battle of Adwalton take place in 1643 ?

Q6 GEOGRAPHY 2  Bolivia is one of two landlocked countries in South America. What is the other country ?

Q7 LITERTURE 2  Lamprius the Soothsayer is a character in which Shakespeare play ?

Q8 MUSIC 2  Which rapper headlined Glastonbury in 2019 ?

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 22 Nov 2021] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tues 23 Nov 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 Nov 2021

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

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Tues 23 Nov 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  

[Mi-Amigo]

THE RESULTS

@RafaC 

Q1 Nero - incorrect  Q2 Mongolia - incorrect  Q3 pass  Q4 Stereo MCs - incorrect

Q5 War of the Roses - incorrect  Q6 correct - awarded   Q7 Hamlet - incorrect 

Q8 Kendrick Lamar - incorrect

Total - 1  for one correct answer

@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

@Cleoriff 

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

Q5 correct - awarded   Q6 correct - awarded  

Q7 Julius Caesar - as Soothsayer [not Lamprius] is character in that play, I`ll be generous an award half 

Q8 correct - awarded

plus for 6 correct answers and 1 part-correct also awarded

Bronze Thinker

@gmarkj 

Q1 LukasB - 😂 - incorrect  Q2 Mongolia - incorrect  Q3 correct - awarded   Q4 correct - awarded 

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

plus for 4 correct answers also awarded    

Red Thinker

@lewys-gp 

Q1 Augustus - incorrect  Q2 Nepal - incorrect  Q3 correct - awarded   Q4 correct - awarded 

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

Total - 3  for three correct answers

@BobM 

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

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

plus for 7 correct answers also awarded

Bronze Thinker

@Martin-O2 

Q1 pass  Q2 India - incorrect  Q3 pass  Q4 pass  Q5 correct - awarded 

Q6 Ecuador - incorrect  Q7 pass  Q8 correct - awarded 

Total - 2  for two correct answers

@TallTrees 

Q1 pass  Q2 Nepal - incorrect  Q3 pass  Q4 pass  Q5 pass

Q6 correct - awarded   Q7 pass   Q8 pass

Total - 1  for one correct answer

@jonsie 

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

[Mi-Amigo]

AWARDS

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

Bronze Thinker +           = 7 correct - @BobM 

Bronze Thinker + half   = 6 correct + 1 part correct - @Cleoriff 

Red Thinker                       = 4 correct - @gmarkj 

                                 = 3 correct - @lewys-gp 

                                     = 2 correct - @Martin-O2 

                                         = 1 correct - @TallTrees  @RafaC 

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

Well done

@BobM        = Bronze Thinker + 

@Cleoriff      = Bronze Thinker + half 

@gmarkj       = Red Thinker

@lewys-gp    =     

@Martin-O2  =   

@TallTrees     = 

@RafaC          = 

I hope everyone enjoyed this White Room Quiz and will join in today`s White Room Quiz which will be

8 questions, with two questions on each of these categories

- PEOPLE    SPACE    WORDS    GAMES

and will be posted on a separate thread shortly

Thanks everyone for joining in and making WRQ fun.

[Cleoriff]

Well done to the silver thinkers and everyone who took part. Roll on the next one 😂

[BobM]

Another good quiz, thank you @Mi-Amigo 

Well done everyone who took part 👍

[Mi-Amigo]

Thank you @Cleoriff and @BobM

Pleased you enjoyed the quiz and well done on your awards - given there were some tougher questions.

Hope both of you, and everyone else, like the categories and some, if not all, of the questions in today`s White Room Quiz which is now up on a separate thread

[pgn]

Well done all, yes - and no History in the next one, yaay, thanks @Mi-Amigo!

[Cleoriff]

I'll look at next one on return from my trip out @Mi-Amigo 😉

[RafaC]

From Red Thinker to a lonely star. I spiralled down quickly 😂

Thanks for another quiz @Mi-Amigo and well done everyone!

[gmarkj]

well done all, some tricky questions there!

[Mi-Amigo]

Thank you @pgn @gmarkj @RafaC 

Well done on your awards and hope you are not too disappointed as there were some very tricky questions.

Hopefully you`ll find some of the questions in today`s WRQ a little easier.