White Room Quiz Wed 09 Dec 2020 - Page 2

Mi-Amigo · ‎09-12-2020

Welcome to

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

Today`s White Room Quiz is eight questions with two questions from each of four categories

PLACES NATURE LITERATURE TV

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 @Anonymous

and O2 Community managers @Marjo @Martin-O2 @LukasB

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.

Please note: there is one QI-style question in which the answer is not what most people think.

TODAY`S EIGHT QUESTIONS

Q1 PLACES 1 What was the name of the Russian city Stalingrad changed to in 1961?

Q2 NATURE 1 What type of bird is a teal?

Q3 LITERATURE 1 In which book by Mark Twain did the character Huckleberry Finn first appear?

Q4 TV 1 What is the address of Wallace and Gromit in the TV animations?

Q5 PLACES 2 Komodo National Park, famous for Komodo Dragons, is in which country?

Q6 NATURE 2 What is the gestation period [in days] of a tigress?

Q7 LITERATURE 2 Who wrote the science fiction novel "The Midwich Cuckoo"?

Q8 TV 2 What was the original title which Tony Warren gave to his ITV soap drama, which was changed

to Coronation Street before it was first broadcast?

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 09 December] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thursday 10 December]

- 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 11 December

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

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 09 December 2020] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thursday 10 December 2020].

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Thursday 10 December 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

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

MI5 · ‎09-12-2020

I'm on it now.....

I have no affiliation whatsoever with O2 or any subsidiary companies. Comments posted are entirely of my own opinion. This is not Customer Service so we are unable to help with account specific issues.

Currently using:
Pixel 7a (O2 & Lyca), One Plus 6 (Sfr), iPhone 12 Pro Max (Vodafone)

MI5 · ‎09-12-2020

@Mi-Amigo

Can I just check for Q1.

Do you want the previous name of Stalingrad or the current name?

I have no affiliation whatsoever with O2 or any subsidiary companies. Comments posted are entirely of my own opinion. This is not Customer Service so we are unable to help with account specific issues.

Currently using:
Pixel 7a (O2 & Lyca), One Plus 6 (Sfr), iPhone 12 Pro Max (Vodafone)

Mi-Amigo · ‎09-12-2020

@MI5 wrote:
@Mi-Amigo
Can I just check for Q1.
Do you want the previous name of Stalingrad or the current name?

Thanks for the question.

To clarify, I`m not looking for the previous name of Stalingrad but the name it was changed to in 1961.

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

MI5 · ‎09-12-2020

Thank you

I have no affiliation whatsoever with O2 or any subsidiary companies. Comments posted are entirely of my own opinion. This is not Customer Service so we are unable to help with account specific issues.

Currently using:
Pixel 7a (O2 & Lyca), One Plus 6 (Sfr), iPhone 12 Pro Max (Vodafone)

Mi-Amigo · ‎09-12-2020

deleted by me

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

MI5 · ‎09-12-2020

I have no affiliation whatsoever with O2 or any subsidiary companies. Comments posted are entirely of my own opinion. This is not Customer Service so we are unable to help with account specific issues.

Currently using:
Pixel 7a (O2 & Lyca), One Plus 6 (Sfr), iPhone 12 Pro Max (Vodafone)

Mi-Amigo · ‎09-12-2020

Thank you @MI5

I like the gif

pm with your eight answers received

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

pgn · ‎09-12-2020

This gif reflects the perceived degree of cuckoo-ness on this particular WRQ quiz, and the fact that knowing the gestation period of your average tiger is about as likely for me as knowing the airspeed velocity of a (European) unladen swallow... so this is for @Cleoriff, probably one of the few among the crew who might, possibly, know the answer

And be able to say how many movies are represented below, including their names

Incoming, @Mi-Amigo --->>

PS - lay off the egg-nog

Links to O2 Social Media Team here

MI5 · ‎09-12-2020

Just do like me and guess

I have no affiliation whatsoever with O2 or any subsidiary companies. Comments posted are entirely of my own opinion. This is not Customer Service so we are unable to help with account specific issues.

Currently using:
Pixel 7a (O2 & Lyca), One Plus 6 (Sfr), iPhone 12 Pro Max (Vodafone)

Cleoriff · ‎09-12-2020

@pgn wrote:
This gif reflects the perceived degree of cuckoo-ness on this particular WRQ quiz, and the fact that knowing the gestation period of your average tiger is about as likely for me as knowing the airspeed velocity of a (European) unladen swallow... so this is for @Cleoriff, probably one of the few among the crew who might, possibly, know the answer
And be able to say how many movies are represented below, including their names
Incoming, @Mi-Amigo --->>
PS - lay off the egg-nog

What an excellent gif @pgn Oh and yes, I think I do know the answer about tigers. If you watch every Big Cat programme going, some facts do stick in your mind....(I hope)

Veritas Numquam Perit