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White Room Quiz Wed 08 March 2023

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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 four of categories -

    PLACES; SPACE; LITERATURE; WORDS

 

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 @Comben @J9el @Spenny @Breanna 

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 PLACES 1 - The Nazca Lines are in which country ?

 

Q2 SPACE 1 - Which planet in our solar system has the largest dust storms ?

 

Q3 LITERATURE 1 - Complete the title of this Shakespeare play - Timon of ?

 

Q4 WORDS 1 - What did the 19th century word naskin mean ?

 

Q5 PLACES 2 - Charles Bridge spans the Vtlava River in which country ?

 

Q6 SPACE 2 - Galileo, allegedly, described what in our solar system as "ears of a teacup" ?

                                       

Q7 LITERATURE 2 - Who wrote the 1950 novel "A Town Like Alice" ?

 

Q8 WORDS 2 - According to a 19th century dictionary, what did a whiddler do ?

                                                                                 

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 08 Mar 2023] and before 03.00am Fri 10 Mar 2023.

 

Please do not post your answers on the thread.

The answers - and results for each player taking part - will be posted on Fri 10 March 2023

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

 

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THE RULES

Each member must pm [private message] their answers to me Mi-Amigo after 12 noon today [Wed 08 Mar,

2023] and before 03.00am on Fri 10 Mar 2023.

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 03.00am on Fri 10 March 2023 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

 

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Very hard one for me so I'm educated and scored two points which isn't too bad I guess. Thanks to @Mi-Amigo for this and every WRQ.

 

@Patricia1066 I hope you were joking because the idea is to do the White Room Quiz without google or the like. 😂

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@Comben wrote:

 

 

@Patricia1066 I hope you were joking because the idea is to do the White Room Quiz without google or the like. 😂


 @pgn and I also saw that post before it was edited @Comben. I was a bit thrown by it. As you say, it's a quiz to be done without help from any source whatsoever. 🤔 So  yes, I hope it was a joke.

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I did use Google that time, didn't read the details till after uploading the quiz. Won't use it again. But is Encyclopedia Britannica ok? I did ask when uploading the 13/3 quiz answers. 

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@Patricia1066 

No reference books are allowed, or google or Wiki. I'm married to a guy who does quizzes and I'm not allowed to ask him (which is annoying but there you go) 😂

I'm sure @Mi-Amigo will confirm what I've just said. 😉

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Oh well I won't be earning any thinker awards then!

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@Comben @Cleoriff @Patricia1066 

To clarify with regards WRQ...

No google, youtube, wikipedia, or internet search for the answers is allowed - as specified in the rules

Nor is the use of reference books.

This makes the quiz fair for all; so no matter how limited or great knowledge is of a particular subject. Also, on more than one ocassion a wild quess has paid off.

Above all, WRQ, from when it started, has been fun, which is one reason why some quizzers include a gif with their notification that a pm has been sent me [of course, gif may be connected to the question but should not give, or suggest, the answer to a particular question.

Posting that a pm has been sent also confirms a pm has been sent in case, so should I not receive the pm I can notify the quizzer for him/her to re-send it].

I hope that this helps clear up and clarify a few issues.

It is my wish for WRQ to continue to be fun, and hope all quizzers will continue to take part, and enjoy, the quizzes.  

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Thanks @Mi-Amigo. Best of luck @Patricia1066 xx

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Thanks @Mi-Amigo @Cleoriff 

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@Cleoriff A bit late to the party on this one but thanks for following up with Patricia1066.
It's best to nip things in the bud early just in case, I think it was an honest mistake but nice to see they are still playing along without google and the like.

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