White Room Quiz Wed 12 July 2023

[Mi-Amigo]

Welcome to

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 the usual categories 

  HISTORY;  NATURE;   WORDS;   ART

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 @J9el @Spenny @Patricia1066 @BobM @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 HISTORY 1 - Three battles were fought on what is now British soil in 1066. The second was Stamford

                              Bridge; the third was Hastings. What was the first battle in 1066 ?

Q2 NATURE 1 - What type of mammal is a tamaraw, native to the Philippines ?

Q3 WORDS 1 - Ecru is a word for what colour ?

Q4 ART 1 - Cave paintings in La Grotte Chauvet, Ardeche, France. dating from 20,000 to 17,000 years ago,

                     depict two different kinds of animal. Name one.

Q5 HISTORY 2 - The Pitchfork Rebellion in July 1685 in Somerset, England is better known as the battle of

                             ..... where ?

Q6 NATURE 2 - How many neck vertebrae does an owl have ?

Q7 WORDS 2 - What does the word eccaleobion mean ?

Q8 ART 2 - Who created the red panel piece "Turqued Ellipses" in 1997, which was shown at Dia Centre,

                     New York, USA ?

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 12 July 2023] and before 03.00am Fri 14 July 2023.

Please do not post your answers on the thread.

The answers - and results for each player taking part - will be posted on Fri 14 July 2023

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 12 July

2023] and before 03.00am on Fri 14 July 2023.

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 03.00am on Fri 14 July 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

[Mi-Amigo]

AWARDS

Silver Thinker                          = 8 correct -  @Cleoriff @MI5 

Bronze Thinker + star             = 7 correct  - @pgn 

Red Thinker + star                  = 5 correct  - @TallTrees  @gmarkj 

2 stars                                       = 2 correct - @Spenny @J9el 

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE SILVER THINKERS - @Cleoriff @MI5 

Well done

@pgn   - Bronze Thinker + star

@gmarkj - Red Thinker + star

@TallTrees - Red Thinker + star

@J9el      - 2 stars

@Spenny - 2 stars

Everyone taking part was awarded at least 2 stars

I hope everyone enjoyed this White Room Quiz; and will join in Monday`s WRQ which will be 8 questions, with two questions on each of these categories

-  PEOPLE;  PLACES;   LITERATURE; MUSIC

I will search out a mix of easier and not-so-easy questions over the weekend.

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

[Cleoriff]

Well done everyone. Thanks @Mi-Amigo for all your hard work xx

[TallTrees]

Steadying my results presently 

Red Thinker very good as had to really get there with these questions. Thank you for the quiz @Mi-Amigo 

I really loved the cave drawing question. Will remember owl vertebrae 🤔 

Owl in garden now I'll know!

Very well done all😊

[pgn]

Not a bad result, all-in, I think. Still think there is a cave somewhere with paintings like those in the video I posted, somehow 😁

Thanks for all the hard work on these, can't be easy when you see a range of answers not all like your reference book shows, @Mi-Amigo 🤔😂

[Spenny]

If I paid more attention on Jurassic park, would I have picked up that word, eccaleobion, for a egg hatcher thingy ?

[MI5]

Thanks @Mi-Amigo and well done all.

[TallTrees]

🤣🤣

@Spenny 

Knew that film could have been somewhat informative 🤔

[Mi-Amigo]

Thank you @Cleoriff @pgn @Spenny @MI5 @TallTrees 

Pleased you enjoyed the quiz and well done on your awards - especially as there were a couple of questions rated "difficult" this time.