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White Room Quiz Wed 09 Dec 2020

Mi-Amigo
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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

 

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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  

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@MI5 wrote:
Just do like me and guess slight_smile

I hypothesized, postulated, estimated and conjectured, with perhaps a little surmising thrown in for good measure, @MI5 Astounded

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@pgn wrote:

@MI5 wrote:
Just do like me and guess slight_smile

I hypothesized, postulated, estimated and conjectured, with perhaps a little surmising thrown in for good measure, @MI5 Astounded


Diamond dog of words is at it again..tongue_winking

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Well I guesstimated in months and then converted it to days slight_smile
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@MI5 wrote:
Well I guesstimated in months and then converted it to days slight_smile

A bit of squinting and sucking of teeth, and then the toss of a coin here, @MI5 .

PS - love that GIF of Gromit and the railway track, one of my favourites.

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Love that episode too. One of the best slight_smile

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Thank you @pgn 

I love the quiz-within-a-quiz gif . As already mentioned love Wallace & Gromit gif and love that episode

pm with your eight answers received

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@MI5 wrote:

Love that episode too. One of the best slight_smile

 


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@Mi-Amigo wrote:

Thank you @pgn 

I love the quiz-within-a-quiz gif . As already mentioned love Wallace & Gromit gif and love that episode

pm with your eight answers received


Glad you like it, @Mi-Amigo - about 6 films in there, I think... @Cleoriff

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@pgn wrote:

@Mi-Amigo wrote:

Thank you @pgn 

I love the quiz-within-a-quiz gif . As already mentioned love Wallace & Gromit gif and love that episode

pm with your eight answers received


Glad you like it, @Mi-Amigo - about 6 films in there, I think... @Cleoriff


I'm not sure @pgn . I 'think' we have more than 6?....

21 Jump Street

Sweeney Todd

Lone Ranger

Donny Brasco

Cry Baby

Alice Through the Looking Glass

Black Mass

Pirates of the Caribbean.

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