White Room Quiz Wed 06 Jan 2021 "Odd Questions" ed - Page 4

Mi-Amigo · ‎06-01-2021

Welcome to

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 with eight questions with one question on

each of these subjects

TRANSPORT CODES CARS INITIALS POLITICS MATHS SAYINGS ADVERTS

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 @Anonymous

and O2 Community managers @Marjo @Martin-O2 @LukasB @TheresaV

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.

TODAY`S EIGHT QUESTIONS

Q1 TRANSPORT What type of transport is a Chinook?

Q2 CODES The airport of which city is designated the International Airport Code YVR ?

Q3 CARS Which UK car manufacturer produced the Poplar, the Prefect, and the Anglia ?

Q4 INITIALS In technology, what do the initials LCD stand for ?

Q5 POLITICS The Althing is the parliament of which country ?

Q6 MATHS What number is the square root of 196 minus the cube root of 216 ?

Q7 SAYINGS What two words are missing from this well-known saying

Never judge a ---- by its -----

Q8 ADVERTS A famous 2007 TV advert featured a gorilla drumming to Phil Collin`s "In the Air

Tonight". What product did it advertise [maker and item] ?

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 06 Jan 20121] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thurs 07 Jan 2021]

- 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 08 Jan 2021

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 06 Jan 2021] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thurs 07 Jan 2021].

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Thursday 07 Jan 2021 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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Cleoriff · ‎08-01-2021

@pgn when I asked him via messenger, this is what came back immediately I had posted..

Square root of 196 is 14

Cube root of 216 is 6

14 minus 6 is 8

He blows me away with his maths brain....when he was 4 and here, he would sit at his plastic table and chair and get the maths questions answered on Countdown before the contestants.

Veritas Numquam Perit

Mi-Amigo · ‎08-01-2021

I think maths is one of those subject which is either easy or extremely difficult. I remember when I was at grammar school we had a kid in our class who was an absolute genius in history and geography and could cite all the kings and queen of England and the capitals of the countries of the world but couldn`t do simple [?] arithmetic. Me? I loved maths and could do algebra [you, know a + b + c = 88 etc] in my head without pages of working out much to my teacher`s annoyance.

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

LukasB · ‎08-01-2021

A red thinker - I take that haha

Thanks @Mi-Amigo

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Cleoriff · ‎08-01-2021

I can do all sorts of maths and always came top in mental arithmetic. However in the 50's and in secondary modern schools, the most we were taught was fractions. When I was a cadet we were taught medical maths and that was fine. Never had a problem setting up an IV infusion and working out how much over hour each patient should have.

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TheresaV · ‎08-01-2021

Thanks for another great quiz @Mi-Amigo

Can't wait to overtake @LukasB on the next one.....

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Mi-Amigo · ‎08-01-2021

Thank you @LukasB

Thought you`d be pleased to get a Red Thinker this time

Thank you @TheresaV

Well done on your three stars. Good luck in attempting to "overtake" @LukasB in Monday`s or Wed`s Quiz. Sounds like it`s gonna be like the competition between @LukasB and @Marjo in the past but, pleased you both enjoy the quizzes.

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Robert Kennedy.

Cleoriff · ‎08-01-2021

@Mi-Amigo wrote:
I think maths is one of those subject which is either easy or extremely difficult. I remember when I was at grammar school we had a kid in our class who was an absolute genius in history and geography and could cite all the kings and queen of England and the capitals of the countries of the world but couldn`t do simple [?] arithmetic. Me? I loved maths and could do algebra [you, know a + b + c = 88 etc] in my head without pages of working out much to my teacher`s annoyance.

Talking about your maths @Mi-Amigo , it sounds the same as Ben. He was once marked wrong on a maths question as the teacher did not agree with the way he worked it out (all shown on the paper he submitted) He disagreed with this on the premis the answer was correct, therefore how he worked it out was irrelevant. It caused a big furore at school and headmaster called in. Ben and his mum were adamant that there was more than 1 way to work out an answer. The head agreed.

The head then asked Ben jokingly if he would like to undertake a maths quiz with the school accountant. (He wanted to test Bens maths skills.)

Ben agreed. The test took place at lunchtime and they both had 30 minutes to complete the test. Ben finished in 15 minutes. The accountant took 30. Bens were all correct and the accountant got one wrong.

When they compared how they had worked out the answers, the accountant could not understand the 'equations' Ben had used.

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gmarkj · ‎08-01-2021

Great quiz @Mi-Amigo, just foiled by the airport name from getting a silver thinker!

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Mi-Amigo · ‎08-01-2021

@gmarkj wrote:
Great quiz @Mi-Amigo, just foiled by the airport name from getting a silver thinker!

Thank you @gmarkj .

Pleased you enjoyed the quiz. Well done on getting the Bronze Thinker and star. Shame you just missed out on Silver Thinker because of the airport question.

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

pgn · ‎08-01-2021

@Anonymous wrote:
I can do the cube thing 6x6x6 but how the hell do you do square root?

Which number, when multiplied by itself, gives you the answer? That number is the root of the original number, @Anonymous - or you can use @Cleoriff's abacus

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