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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 an "Odd Questions" edition. Instead of eight questions with two questions from each of four categories, there are eight questions with one question on each of these subjects.
CURRENCY PIRATES INITIALS CODES FLAGS SAYINGS SIGNS MEASURES
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, but one of the questions in today`s WRQ is rated in quiz books as "hard".
TODAY`S EIGHT QUESTIONS
Q1 CURRENCY Which British coin, minted between 1971 and 2008 and still in circulation, features the
Prince of Wales feathers ?
Q2 PIRATES Who captured the infamous pirate Blackbeard ?
Q3 INITIALS In finance, what do the initials I.M.F. stand for ?
Q4 CODES In Morse Code, what number does . . . . - [dot, dot, dot, dot, dash] represent ?
Q5 FLAGS How many stars are there on the flag of Singapore ?
Q6 SAYINGS Which two words are missing from this well-known saying
You can`t make a - - - - purse out of a - - - ` - ear ?
Q7 SIGNS Which animal is on a British road sign for directions to a zoo ?
Q8 MEASURES How many imperial gills are there in a UK imperial gallon ?
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 30 November] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tuesday 01 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 O2 December
Each member will be awarded 
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 30 November 2020] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tues 01 December 2020].
No member is to post any answer on the thread.
Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Tuesday 01 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
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@Anonymous wrote:
@MI5 wrote:
Hopefully my limited knowledge of Morse code will see me through that question....
Assuming I remember correctly how it's formatted.
If it was a letter question, I'd have no chance.
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Only a nation in a perpetually wet part of the world could have gills as a measure of volume... 🙄
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@Anonymous wrote:
