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White Room Quiz Mon 28 Dec 2020

Mi-Amigo
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Welcome to

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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 four categories 

 

   PEOPLE   PLACES   NATURE   FOOD & DRINK

 

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.

 

TODAY`S EIGHT QUESTIONS

 

Q1 PEOPLE 1   Which serial killer lived at, and committed murder in, 10 Rillington Place?

      

Q2 PLACES 1   In which US city is the University of Minnesota?

 

Q3 NATURE 1  What type of creature is a steelhead?

 

Q4 FOOD & DRINK 1  What type of foodstuff is a radicchio?

 

Q5 PEOPLE 2  King Richard II of England is said to have starved to death around 14 Feb 1400 whilst in

                        captivity in which castle?

 

Q6 PLACES 2   In which city in Italy is the Doge`s Palace ? 

 

Q7 NATURE 2  What type of insect is a devil`s coach-horse?

 

Q8 FOOD & DRINK 2  Which cocktail was devised by Henry MacElhorne in 1919 using creme de menthe,

                                     which was replaced by gin in 1929, and in Savoy Cocktail Book in 1930 was made

                                     with gin, Cointreau and fresh lemon juice?

 

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 28 December] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tuesday 29 December]

- 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 30 December

 

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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                  SILVER THINKER                     BRONZE THINKER                             RED THINKER

                                                       

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Each member must pm [private message] their answers to me [Mi-Amigo] after 12 noon today [Mon 28 December 2020] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tues 29 December 2020].

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Tuesday 29 December 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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Some people see things as they are and ask "Why?"; I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?"
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THE RESULTS:

 

@pgn 

Q1   correct - awarded star  Q2 correct - awarded star   Q3  correct - awarded star 

Q4   correct - awarded star  Q5 correct - awarded star   Q6 correct - awarded star

Q7  correct - awarded star   Q8 correct - awarded star

plus, for eight correct answers also awarded

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Silver Thinker

 

@Cleoriff 

Q1   correct - awarded star  Q2 correct - awarded star   Q3  correct - awarded star 

Q4   correct - awarded star  Q5 correct - awarded star   Q6 correct - awarded star

Q7  correct - awarded star   Q8 correct - awarded star

plus, for eight correct answers also awarded

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Silver Thinker

 

@MI5 

Q1 correct - awarded  star  Q2  correct - awarded star  Q3 correct - awarded star   

Q4 correct - awarded star   Q5 vegetable - as chicory is classed as a vegetable, I`ll award a half star 

Q6 correct - awarded star   Q7 correct - awarded star  Q8 correct - awarded star 

plus, for more than six correct also awarded

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Bronze Thinker

 

@jonsie 

Q1 correct - awarded  star  Q2 correct - awarded star  Q3 correct - awarded star   

Q4 correct - awarded star   Q5 spice - as chicory is classed as a spice, I`ll award a half star 

Q6 correct - awarded star   Q7 correct - awarded star  Q8 correct - awarded star 

plus, for more than six correct also awarded

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Bronze Thinker

 

@gmarkj 

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

Q5 pass   Q6 correct - awarded star  Q7 correct - awarded star 

plus, for four correct answers, also awarded

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Red Thinker

 

@LukasB 

Q1 pass    Q2 correct - awarded star  Q3 shark - incorrect   Q4  Q6 correct - awarded star 

Q5 Windsor Castle - incorrect   Q6 correct - awarded star Q7 bug - incorrect   Q8 pass

Total: three star for three correct answers

 

@Anonymous 

Q1 Shipman - incorrect   Q2 correct - awarded star Q3 insect - incorrect   Q4 lettuce - incorrect

Q5 Warwick Castle - incorrect   Q6 correct - awarded star Q7 cockroach - incorrect

Q8 Singapore Sling - incorrect

Total: two star for two correct answers

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

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THE AWARDS:

 

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Silver Thinker                                     = 8 correct answers  @pgn  @Cleoriff 

 

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Bronze Thinker + star + half star    = 7 correct answers + 1 part correct  @MI5   @jonsie 

 

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Red Thinker + star                            = 5 correct answers @gmarkj  

 

star star star                                      = 3 correct answers @LukasB 

 

 starstar                                             = 2 correct answers @Anonymous  

 

CONGRATULATIONS to the SILVER THINKERS - @pgn and @Cleoriff 

 

Well done

@MI5               -  Bronze Thinker + star + half star

@jonsie            -  Bronze Thinker + star + half star

@gmarkj          -  Red Thinker + star 

@LukasB          - star star star  

@Anonymous   - star star

 

Everyone who took part got at least starstar    

 

I hope everyone enjoyed this White Room Quiz and will take part in today`s White Room Quiz, which is the End Of The Year Quiz with 15 questions and for the very first time the chance to be awarded the

PLATINUM THINKER. This will be up on a separate thread shortly.

 

Thank you everyone for taking part in the WRQ.

 

@Mi-Amigo 

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Well done everyone. Really enjoyed that quiz @Mi-Amigo 

Off to see the quiz with FIFTEEN QUESTIONS!! rofl

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Not mad about it haha - three star gingerbread man eggnog thinker 

 

loved it @Mi-Amigo 

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Great quiz, @Mi-Amigo - even if the University one looked like it might have been a trick one... 🎓🤣!

Now Fifteen questions in the End Of Year one, well... Quite a feat, who will it defeat? 🤔

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Thank you @Cleoriff  @LukasB  @pgn 

Pleased you enjoyed the quiz and well done on your awards.

I hope you, and the other regular quizzers, like the End of the Year WRQ which is now up on a separate thread. Good luck with it. 

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Pleased with my Red Thinker, and well done to the Bronze and Silver Thinkers.
Good quiz @Mi-Amigo, and off to check the end of year quiz...

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Thank you @gmarkj 

Good to know you are pleased with your Bronze Thinker.

Hope you like the questions in the End of the Year WRQ. Good luck.

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