White Room Quiz - Mon 25 May 2020 - Page 5

Mi-Amigo · ‎25-05-2020

Welcome to

From today, there will be two White Room Quizzes each week - one on Monday and one on Wednesday.

Each White Room Quiz will have eight questions - with two questions from four categories.

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 @OldFart @gmarkj @WispaRed7

O2 Community managers @Marjo @Martin-O2 @LukasB and O2 Guru @O2John

and any member, who has taken part in the past or has never taken part, and new members

will join in with today`s White Room Quiz.

TODAY`S EIGHT QUESTIONS

Q1 [SPACE - 1] Phoebe is a moon of which planet in our solar system?

Q2 [NATURE - 1] Where do tulips originate from?

Q3 [FOOD & DRINK - 1] What type of pasta has a name meaning "little worms"?

Q4 [GEOGRAPHY - 1] In which English county is the town of Stevenage?

Q5 [SPACE - 2] Which planet in our solar system has the most volcanoes?

Q6 [NATURE - 2] What type of animal is an Avocet?

Q7 [FOOD & DRINK - 2] What is the British name for a zucchini?

Q8 [GEOGRAPHY - 2] How many states are there is Australia [you don`t have to name them]?

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 [Monday 25 May] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tuesday 26 May]

- 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 Wednesday morning 27 May.

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

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 25 May 2020] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] on Tuesday 26 May 2020.

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Tuesday 26 May 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.

Thank you everyone for your interest and for making the quiz so popular.

I hope everyone enjoys today`s White Room Quiz and the quiz gives a little light relief.

Have fun.

@Mi-Amigo

Some people see things as they are and ask "Why?"; I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?"
Robert Kennedy.

pgn · ‎27-05-2020

@MI5 wrote:
Well done all.
Tulips are the national flower of Turkey you know

I do now 🤣

And the red carnation for Portugal, since the bloodless revolution of 25th April 1974 🇵🇹

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Marjo · ‎27-05-2020

Thanks @Mi-Amigo , happy with getting a star! Thanks for organising.

And @LukasB ... next time!!

I was sure tulips were from the Netherlands since they have so many of them.

Mi-Amigo · ‎27-05-2020

Thank you @Marjo .

I`m pleased you enjoyed the quiz.

As for tulips, they did, indeed, become popular in the Netherlands in the 17th century [tulipmania?] but was almost 100 years after they first arrived there from Turkey in 1554, plus, the name "tulip" isn`t Dutch but Turkish.

Hope you, and everyone, likes today`s White Room quiz, which has now been posted on a separate thread.

Some people see things as they are and ask "Why?"; I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?"
Robert Kennedy.

Mi-Amigo · ‎27-05-2020

@MI5 wrote:
Tulips are the national flower of Turkey you know

Thank you @MI5 for that additional information [I learned something today]

Hope you, and everyone, likes the questions in today`s White Room Quiz

https://community.o2.co.uk/t5/Off-Topic/White-Room-Quiz-Wed-27-May-2020/td-p/1353175

Some people see things as they are and ask "Why?"; I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?"
Robert Kennedy.

pgn · ‎27-05-2020

@Mi-Amigo wrote:
Thank you @Marjo .
I`m pleased you enjoyed the quiz.
As for tulips, they did, indeed, become popular in the Netherlands in the 17th century [tulipmania?] but was almost 100 years after they first arrived there from Turkey in 1554, plus, the name "tulip" isn`t Dutch but Turkish.

Hope you, and everyone, likes today`s White Room quiz, which has now been posted on a separate thread.

Tulip, from the Persian "dulben", meaning 'turban'.

Every day's a learning day 😎

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Mi-Amigo · ‎27-05-2020

@pgn wrote:

Tulip, from the Persian "dulben", meaning 'turban'. Every day's a learning day 😎

Thanks @pgn

As our "wordsmith", I`m not surprised you knew that [and, no I didn`t]

"Every day`s a learning day"? Getting to be more like "home schooling"

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gmarkj · ‎27-05-2020

Well done to the Silver Thinkers, and thanks to @Mi-Amigo for another great quiz.
Didn't think the Netherlands was correct but had no clue so went with it anyway!

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Mi-Amigo · ‎27-05-2020

Thank you @gmarkj

Pleased you enjoyed the quiz.

Some people see things as they are and ask "Why?"; I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?"
Robert Kennedy.

jonsie · ‎27-05-2020

Well done everyone, good quiz again @Mi-Amigo

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Mi-Amigo · ‎27-05-2020

Thanks @jonsie

Pleased you enoyed this quiz

Some people see things as they are and ask "Why?"; I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?"
Robert Kennedy.