White Room Quiz Mon 25 July 2022 Odd Questions A-Z part 3

[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 the third of a three-part Odd Questions A-Z quiz

Instead of 8 questions - with two questions on each of four of the usual categories, there will be 8 questions

but one question on each of 8 subjects - with each subject based on a letter of the alphabet

   R - RHYMING SLANG; S - SIGNS; T - TUBE STATIONS; U - UNIFORMS; V - VEHICLES; W - WHEELS;

   Y - YELLOW;  Z -ZEROS

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  @gmarkj   @MI5   @TallTrees  @BobM  @J9el  @Spenny   @adec   @Comben 

@RafaC   @lewys-gp 

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 R - RHYMING SLANG. In Cockney rhyming slang, what is a titfer ?

Q2 S - SIGNS. What is the UK road sign for a National Trust property ahead ?

Q3 T - TUBE STATIONS. Harrow and Wealdstone tube station is on which London underground tube line ?

Q4 U - UNIFORMS. What was a puttree, which could be part of army uniform until WW2 ?

Q5 V - VEHICLES. What type of vehicle was the SRN4 ?

Q6 W - WHEELS. How many wheels, in total, did the Flying Scotsman steam locomotive have when completed

                             in 1923 ?

Q7 Y - YELLOW. Historically, a yellow flag was flown on ships to indicate what ?

Q8 Z - ZEROS. The number decillion is 1 followed by how many zeros ?

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 25 July 2022] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tues 26 July 2022] - 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 Wednesday 27 July 2022

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 25 July 2022] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tues 26 July 2022].

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Tues 26 July 2022 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

[pgn]

Incoming, @Mi-Amigo -->

[Mi-Amigo]

Thank you @pgn 

Like the piccy

pm with your answers received

[Comben]

Thanks Mi-Amigo.

Although it’s after the deadline now I fortunately got my answers off to you via PM before the cutoff.

That said 7 out of 8 of them were guesses! 😂 So I don’t hold my breath this time and am already looking forward to the answers!

[J9el]

Sorry I missed out this time @Mi-Amigo, will be back for today’s.

[Mi-Amigo]

Thank you @Comben 

pm with your answers was received before deadline

Sorry you missed out on this quiz @J9el 

Hope you will be able to join in with today`s [Wed`s] WRQ.

[Mi-Amigo]

THE ANSWERS

Q1 R - RHYMING SLANG. In Cockney rhyming slang, what is a titfer ?

A1  Hat - ******-for-tat

Q2 S - SIGNS. What is the UK road sign for a National Trust property ahead ?

A2   white oak leaf on brown background

Q3 T - TUBE STATIONS. Harrow and Wealdstone tube station is on which London underground tube line ?

A3    Bakerloo

Q4 U - UNIFORMS. What was a puttee, which could be part of army uniform until WW2 ?

A4    cloth strip wrapped round the leg

Q5 V - VEHICLES. What type of vehicle was the SRN4 ?

A5    Hovercraft

Q6 W - WHEELS. How many wheels, in total, did the Flying Scotsman steam locomotive have when completed

                             in 1923 ?

A6   12 - 4 leading wheels + 6 powered/coupled driving wheels + 2 trailing wheels

Q7 Y - YELLOW. Historically, a yellow flag was flown on ships to indicate what ?

A7   Disease on board ship

Q8 Z - ZEROS. The number decillion is 1 followed by how many zeros ?

A8   US - 33 zeros; UK - 60 zeros. I`ll accept either as correct and award star

[Mi-Amigo]

THE RESULTS

@RafaC 

Q1 pass    Q2 pass   Q3 correct - award   Q4 walking stick - incorrect

Q5 ship - incorrect  Q6 50 - incorrect   Q7 SOS - incorrect  Q8 10 - incorrect

Total - 1 star for 1 correct

@MI5 

Q1 correct - awarded   Q2 correct - award    Q3 correct - award   Q4 correct - awarded 

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

plus for 8 correct answers also awarded

Silver Thinker

@jonsie 

Q1 correct - awarded   Q2 correct - award    Q3 correct - award  

Q4 powder holder - incorrect  Q5 correct - awarded   Q6 correct - award    

Q7 correct - award   Q8 correct - awarded 

plus for 7 correct answers

Bronze Thinker

@Cleoriff 

Q1 correct - awarded   Q2 correct - award    Q3 correct - award   Q4 correct - awarded 

Q5 correct - awarded   Q6 24 - incorrect  Q7 correct - award   Q8 correct - awarded 

plus for 7 correct answers

Bronze Thinker

@Spenny 

Q1 pass    Q2 correct - award    Q3 Metropolitan - incorrect  Q4 pass

Q5 train - incorrect   Q6 24 - incorrect   Q7 correct - award   Q8  12 - incorrect

Total - 2 stars for 2 correct

@Breanna 

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

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

plus for 5 correct answers

Red Thinker

@TallTrees 

Q1 correct - awarded   Q2 correct - award    Q3 correct - award   Q4 correct - awarded 

Q5 ship - incorrect    Q6 10 - incorrect   Q7 correct - award   Q8 50 - incorrect

plus for 5 correct answers

Red Thinker

@pgn 

Q1 correct - awarded   Q2 correct - award    Q3 correct - award   Q4 correct - awarded 

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

plus for 8 correct answers also awarded

Silver Thinker

@Comben 

Q1 correct - awarded   Q2 correct - award    Q3 Circle - incorrect 

Q4 tie - incorrect  Q5 tank - incorrect  Q6 8 - incorrect  Q7 man overboard - incorrect

Q8 9 - incorrect

Total - 2 stars for 2 correct

[Mi-Amigo]

AWARDS

Silver Thinker                     = 8 correct - @MI5  @pgn 

Bronze Thinker +       = 7 correct - @jonsie  @Cleoriff  

Red Thinker +            = 5 correct - @TallTrees  @Breanna  

                           = 2 correct - @Spenny  @Comben 

                                    = 1 correct - @RafaC 

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE SILVER THINKERS - @MI5  @pgn 

Well done

@jonsie            = Bronze Thinker +  

@Cleoriff         = Bronze Thinker + 

@TallTrees        = Red Thinker + 

@Breanna        = Red Thinker + 

@Comben         =  

@Spenny           =  

@RafaC              = 

Everyone taking part was awarded at least one star.

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

a Number Edition of 8 questions with one question on each of these subject

-  HISTORY;  PEOPLE; NATURE;  SCIENCE; LITERATURE; MUSIC; SPORT; FOOD & DRINK

The answer to each question is a number.

Wednesday`s WRQ will be posted on a separate thread shortly.

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

[MI5]

Thanks @Mi-Amigo and well done all.

[TallTrees]

Thank you @Mi-Amigo 

Very Interesting I enjoyed that one: 

but will not need to know Q8 generally speaking I suppose 😂

Don't think banking has got there yet, however there is still time!