White Room Quiz Wed 07 Aug 2024 - Mastermind Challenge

[Mi-Amigo]

Welcome to

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

Today`s WRQ is the Mastermind Challenge with 8 questions taken from the questions faced by two of the winners of the Mastermind Champion of Champions - four of the questions faced by Sir David Hunt, the

Mastermind Champion of Champions in 1982; and four questions faced by Pat Gibson, the Mastermind

Champion of Champions in 2010.

Both Sir David Hunt and Pat Gibson failed to give the correct answer to two of their questions in this quiz.

Can any WRQ quizzer beat the former Mastermind Champion of Champions ? 

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 @gmarkj @jonsie @MI5 @TallTrees @BobM @Oxonian @J9el @Spenny [ @Dave-O2 is on leave ]

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

SIR DAVID HUNT`s questions

Q1 In the Ancient Roman calendar, what were the kalends ?

Q2 What is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta ?

Q3 What type of creature is a cottonmouth or water moccasin ?

Q4 Which opera by Rossini was originally entitled "The Useless Precaution" ?

PAT GIBSON`s questions

Q5 What was the surname of the English Field Marshall who led the defeat of the Turkish forces at

          Megiddo in 1918 ?

Q6 Who wrote the poem "The Dong With A Luminous Nose" in the 1870s ?

Q7 Which word, from the Latin for liquid, describes a water emulsion of a synthetic rubber or plastic

         obtained by polymerization and used especially in coatings of paint and adhesives ?

Q8 What is the name of the British swimmer who became a double gold medal winner at 2008 Beijing

         Paralympics ?

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 07 Aug 2024] and before 03.00am Fri 09 Aug 2024.

Please do not post your answers on the thread.

The answers - and results for each player taking part - will be posted on Fri 09 Aug 2024.

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

PLUS - for correct answer for each question which Mastermind Champion of Champions could not answer,

I will award a  - so, chance of being awarded four trophies .

THE RULES

Each member must pm [private message] their answers to me Mi-Amigo after 12 noon today [Wed 07 Aug

2024] and before 03.00am on Fri 09 Aug 2024.

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 03.00am on Fri 09 Aug 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]

AWARDS

Silver Thinker                                 = 8 correct - @pgn @Cleoriff 

Bronze Thinker                              = 6 correct - @jonsie 

2 stars                                             = 2 correct - @Oxonian 

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE SILVER THINKERS - @pgn @Cleoriff 

Well done

@jonsie       - Bronze Thinker 

@Oxonian   - 2 stars

TROPHIES:

    - 4 correct answers to questions which Mastermind Champions of Champions got wrong

                         @pgn @Cleoriff 

        - 3 correct answers to questions which Mastermind Champions of Champions got wrong

                         @jonsie 

            - 2 correct answers to questions which Mastermind Champions of Champions got wrong   

                         @Oxonian 

Everyone taking part beat at least one of the Mastermind Champion of Champions                   

I hope everyone enjoyed this White Room Quiz and will join in Monday`s WRQ`s which is a regular WRQ

  of 8 questions with 2 questions on each of these categories

 GEOGRAPHY  MOVIES  ART  GENERAL KNOWLEDGE [random questions which don`t fit in usual catgeories] 

Thank you everyone for taking part and making the WRQ fun.

[pgn]

Trophies as well as Thinkers and stars - I guess it is Olympics season, medals everywhere 😂

Well done to the few that ventured answers - and surprising that capital cities flummox so many championship contests, never mind the WRQ! Thanks, @Mi-Amigo - I got lucky with latex 👍🏼

[Cleoriff]

Well done to those who took part. Loved @jonsie's answer for Allenby. 😂

I got lucky with Q1. I knew it was to do with moon phases and took a punt 😂

I think it must be a bit different in a TV studio when you have limited time to think of answers.

Thanks @Mi-Amigo x

[gmarkj]

Sorry for missing this, but don't think I would have done very well!

Snake and Ellie Simmonds for sure, and latex maybe. The rest, no way.

Well done everyone, and thanks @Mi-Amigo 

[jonsie]

Tough, rough and gave me a migraine @Mi-Amigo 

Well done everyone and well done @Mi-Amigo 

[Mi-Amigo]

Thank you @pgn @Cleoriff @jonsie 

Well done on your awards and beating the Mastermind Champions of Champions.

Sorry you missed out on the quiz @gmarkj but it should be noted that your "latex" answer would have also seen you beat a Mastermind Champion of Champions.