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White Room Quiz - Wed 08 July 2020

Mi-Amigo
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Welcome to

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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 @Martin-O2  @LukasB 

 

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

 

      WORDS   TV   GAMES   PLACES

    

TODAY`S EIGHT QUESTIONS

 

Q1 [WORDS - 1] What is an eponym?   

      

Q2 [TV - 1] Which TV comedy featured the characters Terry Collier and Bob Ferris ?

 

Q3 [GAMES - 1] What is the maximum possible score in ten-pin bowling ?

 

Q4 [PLACES - 1] Skokholm Island, a bird sanctuary, is off the coast of which British county ?

 

Q5 [WORDS - 2] The word "idiot" comes from the Greek "idiotes". What did it originally mean ? 

 

Q6 [TV - 2] Which character was played by Emma Caulfield in the TV series "Buffy The Vampire Slayer"?

 

Q7 [GAMES - 2] What indoor game did Andrew Flintoff play for Lancashire schools ? 

 

Q8 [PLACES - 2] Which cathedral has the second highest spire in England ?  

 

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 08 July] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thursday 09 July]

- 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 10 July.

 

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

 

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                  SILVER THINKER                     BRONZE THINKER                             RED THINKER

                                                       

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Each member must pm [private message] their answers to me [Mi-Amigo] after 12 noon today [Wed 08 July 2020] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thurs 09 July 2020].

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Thursday 09 July 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 likes the choice of questions in today`s White Room Quiz, and you find it fun.

Good luck, everyone

 

@Mi-Amigo  

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

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pgn
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@jonsie wrote:

@pgn wrote:

@jonsie wrote:
I'm a Quantum Physicist in my spare time....

Time is quantum... How much have you got spare? ๐Ÿ˜


A Qantity...


Crude and lewd, love it, @jonsie yahoo

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A silly thought about Physics

 

If it wriggles it is Biology

 

If it smells it is Chemistry

 

If it does not work it is Physics

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pgn
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@Anonymous wrote:

A silly thought about Physics

If it wriggles it is Biology

If it smells it is Chemistry

If it does not work it is Physics


Very good, @Anonymous.

You might like this one too... ๐Ÿคฃ

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Anonymous
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Very funny @pgn ๐Ÿ˜
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