White Room Quiz Mon 31 Aug 2020 - ☀️🌴 Summer Ed

[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 part of the ☀️🌴 Summer on the O2 community 🌴☀️

Instead of the usual eight questions - with two questions from four categories - there will be 12 questions - with one question from each of these categories

 HISTORY  PLACES  NATURE  SPACE  LITERATURE  MUSIC  ART  MOVIES  TV  SPORT  EVENTS

and one ODD question on SAYINGS

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 @Martin-O2 and @LukasB [@Marjo is on holiday until Wed]; 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.

Don`t worry if you are away on Bank Holiday Monday, you will still have all day Tuesday to take part.

TODAY`S TWELVE QUESTIONS

To tie-in with "the Summer in the O2 Community", the questions, in some way, relate to "summer;

but no question is a QI-style question, in which the answer is not what most people think.

Q1 [HISTORY] Which King of England was killed in the New Forest in the summer of 1100 ?  

Q2 [PLACES]    The Summer Isles are off the coast of which British peninsula ?

Q3 [NATURE]   Summer berries Achillea millefolium are more commonly known as what ?

Q4 [SPACE]      How many days are there in the summer season on Mars ?

Q5 [LITERATURE] Who wrote "Bed In Summer" and "Summer Sun", published in the collection

                              "A Children`s Garden of Verses" in 1885 ? 

Q6 [MUSIC] Who wrote "Summertime [and the living is easy]" in 1934 ?

Q7 [ART]  Which British painter painted "Summer Evening" - field with cows and trees - in 1811/12  ? 

Q8 [MOVIES]   What was the name of the character played by Cliff Richard in the 1963 movie "Summer Holiday" ?

Q9 [TV]  Who played the character Norman Clegg in the TV comedy "Last of the Summer Wine" ?

Q10 [SPORT] Who won the Gold Medal in the Men`s 800 metres in the 1980 Summer Olympics ?

Q11 [EVENTS] In which English county is the World Gravy Wrestling Championship held each summer ?

Q12 [ODD - SAYING] What word is missing from this well-known saying

                                    "one ------- does not a summer make" ?

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 31 August] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tuesday 01 September]

- 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 02 Sept.

                                                                THE RULES

Each member must pm [private message] their answers to me [Mi-Amigo] after 12 noon today [Mon 31 August 2020] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tues 01 September 2020].

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Tuesday 01 September 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" and take part in this quiz. 

Each correct answer given by each member will be awarded a  .

In addition, the following trophies will be awarded for

                          12 correct      10 correct     8 correct     6 correct     4 correct

                            answers          answers       answers      answers      answers

                                     

                            Diamond         Golden         Silver         Bronze              Red

                             Thinker           Thinker       Thinker      Thinker           Thinker

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  

[Mi-Amigo]

TODAY`S TWELVE QUESTIONS

To tie-in with "the Summer in the O2 Community", the questions, in some way, relate to "summer;

but no question is a QI-style question, in which the answer is not what most people think.

Q1 [HISTORY] Which King of England was killed in the New Forest in the summer of 1100 ?  

Q2 [PLACES]    The Summer Isles are off the coast of which British peninsula ?

Q3 [NATURE]   Summer berries Achillea millefolium are more commonly known as what ?

Q4 [SPACE]      How many days are there in the summer season on Mars ?

Q5 [LITERATURE] Who wrote "Bed In Summer" and "Summer Sun", published in the collection

                              "A Children`s Garden of Verses" in 1885 ? 

Q6 [MUSIC] Who wrote "Summertime [and the living is easy]" in 1934 ?

Q7 [ART]  Which British painter painted "Summer Evening" - field with cows and trees - in 1811/12  ? 

Q8 [MOVIES]   What was the name of the character played by Cliff Richard in the 1963 movie "Summer Holiday" ?

Q9 [TV]  Who played the character Norman Clegg in the TV comedy "Last of the Summer Wine" ?

Q10 [SPORT] Who won the Gold Medal in the Men`s 800 metres in the 1980 Summer Olympics ?

Q11 [EVENTS] In which English county is the World Gravy Wrestling Championship held each summer ?

Q12 [ODD - SAYING] What word is missing from this well-known saying

                                    "one ------- does not a summer make" ?

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 31 August] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tuesday 01 September]

- 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 02 Sept.

                                                                THE RULES

Each member must pm [private message] their answers to me [Mi-Amigo] after 12 noon today [Mon 31 August 2020] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Tues 01 September 2020].

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Tuesday 01 September 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" and take part in this quiz. 

Each correct answer given by each member will be awarded a  .

In addition, the following trophies will be awarded for

                          12 correct      10 correct     8 correct     6 correct     4 correct

                            answers          answers       answers      answers      answers

                                     

                            Diamond         Golden         Silver         Bronze              Red

                             Thinker           Thinker       Thinker      Thinker           Thinker

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  

[Cleoriff]

Well I honestly didn't expect that!! I really though I had messed up the Mars one.

@LukasB 

1) Old Age

2) Attended many many many pub quizzes

3) Husband used to devise quizzes for bars in Spain, and does them now for various clubs, pubs and charities. He tests them on me.

[pgn]

Just call me and @Cleoriff  "the diamond geezers" this quiz,@LukasB 💎🤙

Thanks, @Mi-Amigo, great quiz ! BTW that peninsula is really 2-named, Rubha Mór being the headland directly north of the archipelago 😉

[Mi-Amigo]

Thank you @LukasB for your comments. 

Hope you enjoyed the quiz.

Thank you @Martin-O2 

Seems you and @LukasB found this quiz a little harder

Thank you @Cleoriff 

Congrats on Diamond Thinker...

The Mars question was one of the trickier ones. According to NASA, the specific number of days is 178, but astronomy sources show the summer can vary between 170 and 180 days so accepted that.

Thank you @pgn 

Pleased you enjoyed the quiz

Congrats on Diamond Thinker...

Yes, you and @Cleoriff  Diamond Geezers indeed

and thanks for the additional info on the Scottish peninsula...

I hope you`ll all take part in today`s quiz.

what do you make of the questions and categories?

[Cleoriff]

@jonsiemade me laugh with his art answer =Trees're Green and Udder.

[LukasB]

@Mi-Amigo haha yes - a real challenge this time - well done. There goes the red thinker again 

[MI5]

Good grief. I'm shocked at my score..... Many guesses in there.
Well done all and thanks

[Mi-Amigo]

Thank you @MI5 

Pleased you enjoyed the quiz and well done on the Gold Thinker

[pgn]

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@Cleoriff wrote:

@jonsiemade me laugh with his art answer =Trees're Green and Udder.

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@jonsie's answer made me smile too, and also remember a delightful lass from my student days in some of my classes who was called Theresa Green... I kid you not.

[Cleoriff]

I was also pals with a lass in nursing cadets also called Theresa Green. Makes you wonder if parents are 'quite the ticket'?

[gmarkj]

Thanks for another great quiz and well done to the Diamond Duo!