White Room Quiz Wed 10 Jan 2024 WRQ A - Z 7 part 3

[Mi-Amigo]

Welcome to

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

Today`s WRQ is the third part of the three-part A to Z Quiz 7.

Instead of 8 questions - with two questions on each of four of the usual categories - there are 8 questions,

with one question on each of 8 subjects - each based on a letter of the alphabet

 Q - QUOTES; R - RHYMING SLANG; S - SYMBOLS; T - TATTOOS; U - UNDERGROUND STATIONS;

 V - VEHICLES; W - WINDS; Z - ZEROS.

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 @J9el @Oxonian @Spenny @Dave-O2 

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 Q - QUOTES - Who is credited with the quote "Golf is a good walk spoiled" ?

Q2 R - RHYMING SLANG - In Cockney rhyming slang, what is an "ocean wave" ?

Q3 S - SYMBOLS - What in the word for the symbol ~ ?

Q4 T - TATTOOS - What is the tattoo on both forearms of cartoon character Popeye ?

Q5 U - UNDERGROUND STATIONS - Which London underground tube station has the longest escalator

                                                             - measuring 60m/197ft ?

Q6 V - VEHICLES - Which car company produced the Solterra, Forester e-Boxer; and Outback estate ?

Q7 W - WINDS - What is the name of the cold, dry strong wind in Southern France which blows towards

                              the Mediterranean Sea ?

Q8 Z- ZEROS - How many zeros [0s] in a nonillion ?

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 10 Jan 2024] and before 03.00am Fri 12 Jan 2024.

Please do not post your answers on the thread.

The answers - and results for each player taking part - will be posted on Fri 12 Jan 2024

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

THE RULES

Each member must pm [private message] their answers to me Mi-Amigo after 12 noon today [Wed 10 Jan

2024] and before 03.00am on Fri 12 Jan 2024.

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 03.00am on Fri 12 Jan 2024 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]

THE RESULTS

@Cleoriff 

Q1 correct -   Q2 correct -   Q3 correct -   Q4 correct -  .

Q5 correct -   Q6 correct -   Q7 correct -   Q8 correct -  .

plus for 8 correct answers also awarded

Silver Thinker

@MI5 

Q1 Mark Twain - incorrect -   Q2 correct -   Q3 correct -   Q4 correct -  .

Q5 correct -   Q6 correct -   Q7 correct -   Q8 correct -  .

plus for 7 correct answers

Bronze Thinker

@pgn 

Q1 correct -   Q2 correct -   Q3 correct -   Q4 correct -  .

Q5 correct -   Q6 correct -   Q7 correct -   Q8 correct -  .

plus for 8 correct answers also awarded

Silver Thinker

@gmarkj 

Q1 Mark Twain - incorrect  Q2 correct -   Q3 correct -   Q4 correct -  .

Q5 correct -   Q6 correct -   Q7 pass  Q8 correct -  .

plus for 6 correct answers

Bronze Thinker

@BobM 

Q1 not Mark Twain/pass  Q2 correct -   Q3 correct -   Q4 correct -  .

Q5 Baker St - incorrect    Q6 correct -   Q7 correct -   Q8 24 - incorrect .

plus for 5 correct answers

Red Thinker

@Dave-O2 

Q1 pass Q2 correct -   Q3 pass Q4 correct -  .

Q5 Kings Cross - incorrect Q6 correct -   Q7 correct -   Q8 11 - incorrect .

plus for 4 correct answers

Red Thinker

@TallTrees 

Q1 Tiger Woods - in correct Q2 correct -   Q3 question - incorrect  Q4 correct -  .

Q5 Bakerloo - incorrect   Q6 correct -   Q7 correct -   Q8 15 - incorrect .

plus for 4 correct answers

Red Thinker

@J9el 

Q1 Bob Hope - incorrect Q2 correct -   Q3 correct -   Q4 correct -  .

Q5 correct -   Q6 Vauxhall - in correct  Q7 meltemi - incorrect Q8 90 - incorrect .

plus for 4 correct answers

Red Thinker

@jonsie 

Q1 Mark Twain - incorrect  Q2 correct -   Q3 correct -   Q4 correct -  .

Q5 correct -   Q6 correct -   Q7 correct -   Q8 correct -  .

plus for 7 correct answers

Bronze Thinker

[Mi-Amigo]

AWARDS

Silver Thinker                                 = 8 correct - @Cleoriff @pgn 

Bronze Thinker + star                    = 7 correct  - @MI5 @jonsie 

Bronze Thinker                              = 6 correct - @gmarkj 

Red Thinker + star                         = 5 correct - @BobM 

Red Thinker                                   = 4 correct - @Dave-O2 @TallTrees @J9el 

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE SILVER THINKERS- @Cleoriff @pgn 

Well done

@MI5         - Bronze Thinker + star

@jonsie      - Bronze Thinker + star

@gmarkj    - Bronze Thinker

@BobM      - Red Thinker + star

@Dave-O2  - Red Thinker

@TallTrees  - Red Thinker

@J9el          - Red Thinker

Everyone taking part was awarded a Thinker.

I hope everyone enjoyed this White Room Quiz and will join in Monday`s WRQ, which will be a normal WRQ

of 8 questions with two questions on each of these four categories

  HISTORY; NATURE; MUSIC; SPORT

I will search out the questions over the weekend and try and find a mix of easier [?] and not-so-easy questions.

Thank you everyone for taking part and making the WRQ fun.

[pgn]

Well that one blew in a few different ways, @Mi-Amigo - thanks, and well don all! It is I retesting that there are so many ways of naming the compass points, and if you look, you can see the similarities, regardless of where you were when you learned about them:

[TallTrees]

JUST SCRAPED IN for a Red Thinker 😃

@Mi-Amigo 

 

[MI5]

As expected, thanks @Mi-Amigo 

[gmarkj]

I'm sure the Mark Twain one has come up recently and I think I got it wrong there too!

Happy with the rest though. 

Thanks @Mi-Amigo and well done everyone.

[Cleoriff]

Well done one and  all. Thanks @Mi-Amigo. I was lucky to have watched the QI episode re golf. (Before that, I thought It was Mark Twain!!)

[BobM]

Ah well, not my best effort.

Thanks @Mi-Amigo and well done all

[Mi-Amigo]

Thank you @pgn @TallTrees @MI5 @gmarkj @Cleoriff @BobM 

Pleased you enjoyed the quiz and well done on your awards. Great to see everyone getting a Thinker, especially as Q1 was a QI-style question.

[Oxonian]

I missed the deadline for entering @Mi-Amigo, sorry. 

However, had I entered, I would have scored just two correct answers. So no worries ! 😀