White Room Quiz Wed 06 Mar 2024

[Mi-Amigo]

Welcome to

There are two White Room Quizzes each week - one on Monday and one on Wednesday.

Today`s WRQ is 8 questions - with two questions on each of these four categories - 

    NATURE    SCIENCE    WORDS   MOVIES

The White Room Quiz is open to all members.

Those wishing to take part must pm me - @Mi-Amigo  - their answers between 12 noon today [Wed] and

03.00am Friday morning.

Please do not post your answers on the thread.

I hope our regular quizzers

@Cleoriff @pgn @jonsie @gmarkj @MI5 @TallTrees @BobM @Oxonian @J9el @Spenny @Dave-O2 

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 MATURE 1 - What type of creature is a mugger, native to South Asia ?

Q2 SCIENCE 1 - What is the most common human blood group/type ?

Q3 WORDS 1 - What does the word "skosh" - dating from time of Korean War - mean ?

Q4 MOVIES 1 - In Disney`s movie "The Jungle Book", what is the name of the wolf who acted as father to

                            Mowgli ?

Q5 NATURE 2 - The name of which tree, which was connected with witchcraft in ancient texts, is derived

                            from the Norse word for "a charm" ?

Q6 SCIENCE 2 - What is the chemical formula for potassium hydroxide ?

Q7 WORDS 2 - What does the word "hoosegow", dating from 1911 in USA, mean ?

Q8 MOVIES 2 - The character Oddjob appeared in which official James Bond movie ?

The White Room Quiz is open to all members of the Community.

Each member must pm [private message] their answers to me [Mi-Amigo] after 12 noon today [Wed 06 Mar 2024] and before 03.00am Fri 08 Mar 2024.

Please do not post your answers on the thread.

The answers - and results for each player taking part - will be posted on Fri 08 Mar 2024.

Each member will be awarded  for each correct answer. In addition, Thinkers will be awarded as follows

THE RULES

Each member must pm [private message] their answers to me Mi-Amigo after 12 noon today [Wed 06 Mar

2024] and before 03.00am on Fri 08 Mar 2024.

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 03.00am on Fri 08 Mar 2024 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]

Thank you @pgn @MI5 @TallTrees @Cleoriff @BobM @jonsie 

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

From the number of Thinkers, it seems to me that questions on Nature, Science, Words, and Movies got good results - so I`ll bear that in mind for future WRQ 😉 🤔 ....  

[gmarkj]

Well done everyone, and thanks @Mi-Amigo 

[Oxonian]

Good scores from everyone there and thank you @Mi-Amigo for creating a challenging but interesting bank of questions. 👍