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White Room Quiz Mon 23 Nov 2020

Mi-Amigo
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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

 

  PLACES    TV     GAMES     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]

 

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,

and none of the questions in today`s WRQ are rated in quiz books as "difficult" or "hard".

 

TODAY`S EIGHT QUESTIONS

 

Q1 PLACES - 1 Runnymead, where King John put his seal on Magna Carta in 1215, in now in which

                         English county ? 

      

Q2 TV - 1         Laura Tobin regularly appears on which ITV show ?

 

Q3 GAMES - 1 How many points are awarded for the letter O in the game of Scrabble ?

 

Q4 EVENTS - 1 In which month is the annual London to Brighton Veteran Car Run usually held ?

 

Q5 PLACES - 2  In which town is the longest pier in Wales ? 

 

Q6 TV - 2         In Ch 4 "Countdown", how many letters does a contestant select in a letters round ?

 

Q7 GAMES - 2 In a standard pack of 52 playing cards, how many Kings, Queens and Jacks, in total,

                          face right ? 

 

Q8 EVENTS - 2 On what date [day and month] is Bastille Day celebrated in France ?

 

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 23 November] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tuesday 24 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 25 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 23 November 2020] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tues 24 November 2020].

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Tuesday 24 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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Mmmmm... where's those playing cards? rofl

Seriously @Mi-Amigo  do you mean to THEIR right or how we are looking at them?

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Mi-Amigo
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@Cleoriff wrote:

Mmmmm... where's those playing cards? rofl

Seriously @Mi-Amigo  do you mean to THEIR right or how we are looking at them?


Good question about the playing cards @Cleoriff

In the playing cards question, I meant as we are looking at them...

for example on this coin

 

Crown (British coin) - Wikipedia

 

Victoria is facing LEFT

 

Hope that helps.

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Thanks @Mi-Amigo  yahoo

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PM sent @Mi-Amigo...

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Thank you @MI5 

the gif made me laugh

pm with your eight answers received

 

Thank you @gmarkj 

pm with your eight answers received

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PM incoming @Mi-Amigo 

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Mi-Amigo
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Thank you @Cleoriff 

lived your gif

pm with your eight answers received

 

Thank you @jonsie for the gif

I take it you`re thinking about the answers

look forward to pm with your eight answers

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