White Room Quiz - Mon 27 July 2020 - Page 5

Mi-Amigo · ‎27-07-2020

Welcome to

There are 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 @gmarkj @WispaRed7

O2 Community managers @Marjo @Martin-O2 [ @LukasB is on holday] and O2 Guru @O2Karl

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.

I hope everyone likes some, if not all, the questions in this quiz

Today`s WRQ questions are two questions from each of these cateories

WORDS MOVIES GAMES

and two ODD questions - one on FLAGS and one on CODES

Please note: there is no QI-style question [where the answer is not what most people think] this time.

Also, as some found some of the recent questions harder, four of the eight questions are classed as

"easier" in the quiz books I consulted in compiling this quiz.

TODAY`S EIGHT QUESTIONS

Q1 [WORDS - 1] What is a demonym ?

Q2 [MOVIES - 1] Which official Bond film was the first to feature Timothy Dalton as James Bond ?

Q3 [GAMES - 1] How many points is the letter "K" worth in the game of Scrabble ?

Q4 [ODD - 1: FLAGS] Which is the only country in the modern world that does NOT have a rectangular

national flag ?

Q5 [WORDS - 2] What is vexillology the study of ?

Q6 [MOVIES - 2] Which 2010 movie had the tagline

"You don`t get 500 million friends without making a few enemies" ?

Q7 [GAMES - 2] In darts, what is the highest possible score with three darts, with each dart in a different "treble" ?

Q8 [ODD - 2: CODE] What four-letter word does this spell in Morse Code:

--.- ..- .. --.. ?

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 27 July] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tuesday 28 July]

- 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 29 July.

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 27 July 2020] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tues 28 July 2020].

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Tuesday 28 July 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 find it fun.

Good luck, everyone

@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.

gmarkj · ‎29-07-2020

Thanks for another great quiz @Mi-Amigo, even if you were very sneaky with the darts question! (If you didn't read it properly, like I didn't the first time!!)

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Mi-Amigo · ‎29-07-2020

Thanks @gmarkj

Well done for getting the Red Thinker and the darts question right

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

Anonymous · ‎29-07-2020

I always enjoy WRQs @Mi-Amigo they are fun
Pleased my guess at the Bond film was correct.

Mi-Amigo · ‎29-07-2020

Thank you @Anonymous

Pleased you enjoyed the quiz.

Although you must have found some of the questions hard and passed on them, I`m pleased you got a for the Bond question

Hope you like today`s quiz - on 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.

pgn · ‎29-07-2020

@Mi-Amigo wrote:
Thank you @pgn
but I`m not going to write the WRQ is Morse Code

Thank goodness for that. Semaphore neither!

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Marjo · ‎29-07-2020

Pleased with my star! I've been waiting for it after a couple of times getting 0 correct.

Mi-Amigo · ‎29-07-2020

Thanks @Marjo

Well deserved.

Hope you like today`s questions

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

Martin-O2 · ‎29-07-2020

Well done everyone! Looks like I only got the movie questions right, need to get out more

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