White Room Quiz Wed 15 May 2024

[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 these categories

   SCIENCE MUSIC  MOVIES  TV

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 @gmarkj @MI5 @TallTrees @BobM @Oxonian @J9el @Spenny @Dave-O2 

new quizzer @gatrell 

[ @jonsie is away]

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 SCIENCE 1 - Pa is the chemical symbol of which element ?

Q2 MUSIC 1 - What was the title of the UK single by Cat Stevens which reached No 2 in UK singles chart in

                          January 1967 ?

Q3 MOVIES 1 - In the 1981 movie "Gregory`s Girl" what was the first name of the character ["Gregory`s girl"]

                           played by Dee Hepburn ?

Q4 TV 1 - In the 1981 British TV drama "Brideshead Revisted" what was the name of Sebastian`s teddy bear ?

Q5 SCIENCE 2 - What is the chemical symbol for samarium ?

Q6 MUSIC 2 - "If I Were A Rich Man" is a song from which 1964 musical ? 

Q7 MOVIES 2 - In the Austin Powers movies series what was the name of Dr Evi`s cat ?

Q8 TV 2 - In the British TV police drama series "Vera" what is Vera`s surname [character`s surname not

                   actress`s surname] ?

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 15 May 2024] and before 03.00am Fri 17 May 2024.

Please do not post your answers on the thread.

The answers - and results for each player taking part - will be posted on Fri 17 May 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 15 May

2024] and before 03.00am on Fri 17 May 2024.

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 03.00am on Fri 17 May 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]

Thank you @pgn @BobM @MI5 @TallTrees 

Pleased you enjoyed the quiz and well done on your awards

[Oxonian]

I thought that those were a hard set of questions @Mi-Amigo ; and my fears were shown to be correct ! 👍

Anyway, thank you for organising and congratulations to the high scorers. 

[Cleoriff]

Bit late answering this @Mi-Amigo but my PC stopped working. I was also too bleary eyes to check things out on my phone 😂