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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 @LukasB @Martin-O2 and O2 Guru @O2Karl
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.
Over the weekend, I have selected eight questions - with questions from each of these cateories
PEOPLE SPACE LITERATURE GAMES
Please note: there is no QI-style question in which the answer is not what most people think.
TODAY`S EIGHT QUESTIONS
Q1 [PEOPLE - 1] What was the name of the prisoner known as "The Birdman of Alcatraz" ?
Q2 [SPACE - 1] Which planet in our solar system was discovered by Johann Galle in 1846 ?
Q3 [LITERATURE - 1] Who wrote "East is east and West is west; and never the twain shall meet" ?
Q4 [GAMES - 1] Which number on a standard dartboard is between 2 and 3 ?
Q5 [PEOPLE - 2] What was the first name of the English landscape gardener known as "Capability" Brown ?
Q6 [SPACE - 2] What is the name of Jupiter`s second largest moon ?
Q7 [LITERATURE - 2] Who created the character Dr Doolittle ?
Q8 [GAMES - 2] Which game is played on a playing surface measuring 9ft by 5ft ?
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 07 October] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thursday 08 October]
- 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 09 October
Each member will be awarded 
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 07 October 2020] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thurs 08 October 2020].
No member is to post any answer on the thread.
Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Thursday 08 October 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 some of the questions in today`s White Room Quiz, and finds this WRQ fun.
Good luck, everyone
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Oh dear....
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Indeed @Mi-Amigo. There will be no silver thinker for me this time. 
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Ah well @Mi-Amigo ...with me, there are some questions I know, some I have to think about, some I have to think a lot harder about.
Then there are those I wouldn't know the answer if you beat me with an iron pole (or offered me a prize of meeting Cap'n Jack)
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