White Room Quiz Wed 18 Nov 2020

[Mi-Amigo]

Welcome to

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

Today`s White Room Quiz has eight questions - with two questions from each of four categories

  HISTORY   WORDS   ART   SPORT

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 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 no QI-style question in which the answer is not what most people think.

Some of the questions are rated as "easier", others as "not-so-easy".

TODAY`S EIGHT QUESTIONS

Q1 HISTORY - 1 In which war did the Battle of Isandhlwana take place ? 

Q2 WORDS - 1   What is an eidograph ?

Q3 ART - 1          In which city did the first portrait gallery open in 1856 ?

Q4 SPORT - 1      In cricket, how many runs is a nelson ?

Q5 HISTORY - 2  Which British monarch died as a result of his horse stumbling on a molehill ? 

Q6 WORDS - 2    Which word is the opposite of "orthodox" ?

Q7 ART - 2          Who painted "Whistlejacket" in the 1760s ? 

Q8 SPORT - 2      What is the distance [in feet or metres] between the bases in baseball ?

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 18 November] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thursday 19 November]

- 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 20 November

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 18 November 2020] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thurs 19 November 2020].

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Thursday 19 November 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 HISTORY - 1 In which war did the Battle of Isandhlwana take place ? 

Q2 WORDS - 1   What is an eidograph ?

Q3 ART - 1          In which city did the first portrait gallery open in 1856 ?

Q4 SPORT - 1      In cricket, how many runs is a nelson ?

Q5 HISTORY - 2  Which British monarch died as a result of his horse stumbling on a molehill ? 

Q6 WORDS - 2    Which word is the opposite of "orthodox" ?

Q7 ART - 2          Who painted "Whistlejacket" in the 1760s ? 

Q8 SPORT - 2      What is the distance [in feet or metres] between the bases in baseball ?

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 18 November] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thursday 19 November]

- 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 20 November

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 18 November 2020] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thurs 19 November 2020].

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Thursday 19 November 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]

TLA City here this morn? 😳

Thanks for a ball-breaker of a quiz this week, @Mi-Amigo - my initial reaction was tempered a little by the time I had got through my third cuppa and a full tube of Jaffa Cakes 🤣
The Nelson Muntz baseball gif was, to coin a phrase, a GIFt 📦😁

[Mi-Amigo]

Thank you @pgn 

This was one of the hardest WRQ with some tough questions.

Well done on getting the Silver Thinker.

Pleased you enjoyed the quiz and your third cuppa and Jaffa cakes helped.

[jonsie]

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@Cleoriff wrote:

Engine Recovery System- Motor Generator Unit- Kinetic @Mi-Amigo 

or D.A.S. would be another good one.

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I got all the words but in the wrong order

[pgn]

That reminds me, @jonsie...

YT oops. 

Here:

https://twitter.com/IrnBrutime/status/1249430309734617089?s=19

[MI5]

[pgn]

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@MI5 wrote:

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Edited in a link to Twitter of the same vid, thanks @MI5. 

[MI5]

Love that sketch, very funny

[Cleoriff]

Yes it was great. Morecombe and Wise