White Room Quiz Wed 13 Jan 2021 Regulars` Choice Quiz

[Mi-Amigo]

Welcome to

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

                                    Today`s White Room Quiz is the Regulars` Choice Quiz.

The White Room Quiz`s regular quizzers have each voted for their preferred three categories; the points have been counted; and I can reveal the eight categories with the most points are

            SPACE   MOVIES   WORDS   SPORT   PHYSICS   BIOLOGY   ART   FOOD & DRINK.

I have selected one question in each category for this White Room Quiz  

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  @Martin-O2  @LukasB  @TheresaV  @Marjo 

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 SPACE      Which US astronaut wrote his daughter`s initials on the Moon ?

Q2 MOVIES   What are the names of the two twin girls who invite Danny to "come and play with us"

                        in the 1980 movie "The Shining" ? [characters` names not actors` names]

Q3 WORDS   What does the word "plumbeous" mean ?

Q4 SPORT      What were the first ice hockey pucks made of ?

Q5 PHYSICS   What is commonly used in a rectifier to convert alternating current to direct current ?

Q6 BIOLOGY  Where in the human body are the alveoli ?

Q7 ART           Which English artist painted "A Rake`s Progress", a series of eight paintings ?

Q8 FOOD & DRINK  What type of vegetable is a cornichon ?

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 13 Jan 20121] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thurs 14 Jan 2021]

- 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 15 Jan 2021

Each member will be awarded  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 13 Jan 2021] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thurs 14 Jan 2021].

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Thursday 14 Jan 2021 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  

[Mi-Amigo]

TODAY`S EIGHT QUESTIONS

Q1 SPACE      Which US astronaut wrote his daughter`s initials on the Moon ?

Q2 MOVIES   What are the names of the two twin girls who invite Danny to "come and play with us"

                        in the 1980 movie "The Shining" ? [characters` names not actors` names]

Q3 WORDS   What does the word "plumbeous" mean ?

Q4 SPORT      What were the first ice hockey pucks made of ?

Q5 PHYSICS   What is commonly used in a rectifier to convert alternating current to direct current ?

Q6 BIOLOGY  Where in the human body are the alveoli ?

Q7 ART           Which English artist painted "A Rake`s Progress", a series of eight paintings ?

Q8 FOOD & DRINK  What type of vegetable is a cornichon ?

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 13 Jan 20121] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thurs 14 Jan 2021]

- 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 15 Jan 2021

Each member will be awarded  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 13 Jan 2021] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thurs 14 Jan 2021].

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Thursday 14 Jan 2021 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  

[pgn]

Remarkably versatile, the cowpat - from building houses to making a poultice... but only a sport that comes from a place as cold as Canada could conceive of using it in a team event 🤣

Some of the delights of dung: 11 things you never knew about cowpats! https://www.countrylife.co.uk/nature/11-things-you-never-new-about-cowpats-173541

Thanks, @Mi-Amigo, for an amusing find! 

[Mi-Amigo]

Thank you @pgn for your interesting info on cowpats.

Every day is a learning day on the White Room Quiz 

[Cleoriff]

@pgn 

I knew it was used to build houses and the poultice for an ulcerated leg. The latter didn't surprise me. Over the years we have tried weird and wonderful things to heal badly ulcerated wounds. Yoghurt, honey and sterile maggots. (The latter is not a pretty sight but can be extremely effective)

[jonsie]

Whichever dimwit thought it a good idea to smack a bit of dung across a frozen lake shoud have been buried in cowpats!

Good quiz and thanks for the lesson @Mi-Amigo 

[Mi-Amigo]

Thanks @jonsie 

Pleased you though it was a good quiz

Don`t know if I can find out who that dimwit was  

[pgn]

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@Cleoriff wrote:

@pgn 

I knew it was used to build houses and the poultice for an ulcerated leg. The latter didn't surprise me. Over the years we have tried weird and wonderful things to heal badly ulcerated wounds. Yoghurt, honey and sterile maggots. (The latter is not a pretty sight but can be extremely effective)

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Manuka honey excels in this area, I've heard. 

And someone I once knew had the sterile maggots thing, said it was weird but it worked, as I recall. All in the name of medicine 😉