White Room Quiz - Wed 05 Aug 2020 - Page 4

Mi-Amigo · ‎05-08-2020

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 [Wednesday] and 11.59pm tomorrow [Thursday]

I hope our regular quizzers

@Cleoriff @pgn @jonsie @MI5 @gmarkj @WispaRed7

O2 Community managers @Marjo @Martin-O2 @LukasB 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

PEOPLE PLACES SCIENCE [one question on Chemistry; one on Biology] WORDS

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

but, for the first time, one of the questions is an "Odd-One-Out"

TODAY`S EIGHT QUESTIONS

Q1 [PEOPLE - 1] Who was assassinated by Sirhan Sirhan?

Q2 [PLACE - 1] What is the county town of Buckinghamshire ?

Q3 [SCIENCE - 1 CHEMISTRY] Which of these is the "odd one out" and is NOT an element in the periodic table -

Einsteinium Newtonium Rutherfordium Californium

Q4 [WORDS - 1] What did a scrivener do ?

Q5 [PEOPLE - 2] Marvin Lee Aday is better known as which rock singer ?

Q6 [PLACES - 2] Which province/territory of Canada is between Manitoba and Quebec ?

Q7 [SCIENCE - 2 BIOLOGY] Axilla is the medical term for which part of the human body ?

Q8 [WORDS - 2] What type of word is a neologism ?

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 [Wed 05 Aug] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thursday 06 Aug]

- 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 Fri 07 August.

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 [Wed 05 August 2020] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thurs 06 August 2020].

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Thursday 06 August 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.

Martin-O2 · ‎07-08-2020

Nice work everyone! Great quiz @Mi-Amigo. Some really tricky questions for me in this one.

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Marjo · ‎07-08-2020

Thanks @Mi-Amigo , interesting but tough questions for me! I'm pleased I got 2 stars. Next time I'll get 3!

Mi-Amigo · ‎07-08-2020

Thank you @jonsie

Pleased you liked the quiz and congratulations on getting a Silver Thinker.

Hope you like the categories for Monday - inc the choice for the two Odd questions.

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 · ‎07-08-2020

Thank you @Martin-O2

Well done getting three stars - you only just missed out on the Red Thinker this time

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 · ‎07-08-2020

Thank you @Marjo

Pleased you found the questions interesting.

Two stars is not too bad seeing you found some questions difficult.

I hope you like the categories for Monday`s quiz and will suit you going for three stars or maybe going for four stars and the Red Thinker ?

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 · ‎07-08-2020

Thanks @Mi-Amigo! I'll hit red thinker one day!

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