White Room Quiz Wed 19 Aug 2020 inc 500th Question

Mi-Amigo · ‎19-08-2020

Welcome to

INCLUDING THE 500th WHITE ROOM QUIZ QUESTION

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

Each White Room Quiz will have eight questions - with two questions from four categories.

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 @WispaRed7

O2 Community managers @Marjo @Martin-O2 @LukasB and O2 Guru @O2Karl

and any member, who has taken part in the past or has never taken part, and new members

will join in with today`s White Room Quiz.

I hope everyone likes some, if not all, the questions in this quiz

Today`s WRQ questions are two questions from each of these cateories

PEOPLE WORDS EVENTS

and two ODD QUESTIONS - one SAYINGS; one MEASUREMENTS

Please note: there is no QI-style question [where the answer is not what most people think] this time.

TODAY`S EIGHT QUESTIONS

Q1 [PEOPLE - 1] What did Octavia Hill co-found in Britain in the 1890s ?

Q2 [WORDS - 1] What did "desoculation", defined in Samuel Johnson`s Dictionary in 1755 [but no

longer in use], mean ?

Q3 [EVENTS - 1] What event is held annually on the last Monday in August in Waen Rydd, near

Llanwrtyd Wells, mid Wales ?

Q4 [ODD - 1 - SAYINGS] What are the two missing words from this well-known saying

make --- while the sun ------ ?

Q5 [PEOPLE - 2] Who was British Prime Minister from 1964 to 1970 ?

Q6 [WORDS - 2] What is hericide ?

Q7 [EVENTS - 2] Where in England [town, county] is the World Custard Pie Championship held ?

Q8 [ODD- 2 MEASUREMENTS = White Room Quiz 500th Question]

In pre-metric measurements, how many stones [st], pounds [lbs], ounces [oz] is

500 oz [ounces] ? Answer = x st, x lbs, x ozs

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 19 Aug] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thursday 20 Aug]

- 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 21 August.

Each member will be awarded star 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

PLUS - to celebrate the 500th WRQ QUESTION

each person who correctly answers Q8 - the 500th Question - will also be awarded

THE RULES

Each member must pm [private message] their answers to me [Mi-Amigo] after 12 noon today [Wed 19 August 2020] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thurs 20 August 2020].

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Thursday 20 August 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.

Thank you everyone for your interest and for making the quiz so popular.

I hope everyone enjoys today`s White Room Quiz, and find it fun.

Good luck, everyone

@Mi-Amigo

Some people see things as they are and ask "Why?"; I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?"
Robert Kennedy.

TallTrees · ‎19-08-2020

@Mi-Amigo

Good luck everyone

When you have some time, I can pop in and out on one of those little triangles making up words. Bye for now TallTrees

HAPPINESS IS BEE SHAPED

MI5 · ‎19-08-2020

Good grief 🤔

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Mi-Amigo · ‎19-08-2020

@MI5 wrote:
Good grief 🤔

Some of the questions are a little "tricky" this time... but no QI-style question

Look forward to pm with your eight answers any time after 12 noon, so plenty of time to think.

Good luck.

Some people see things as they are and ask "Why?"; I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?"
Robert Kennedy.

Cleoriff · ‎19-08-2020

Good grief x2 !!

Veritas Numquam Perit

LukasB · ‎19-08-2020

HAHAH @Mi-Amigo I know absolutely nothing

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Mi-Amigo · ‎19-08-2020

Thanks @Cleoriff and @LukasB

This could to be fun when the answers come in...

Seriously, good luck with these brainteasers

Some people see things as they are and ask "Why?"; I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?"
Robert Kennedy.

MI5 · ‎19-08-2020

@Mi-Amigo wrote:
Look forward to pm with your eight answers.............

I'm not

I have no affiliation whatsoever with O2 or any subsidiary companies. Comments posted are entirely of my own opinion. This is not Customer Service so we are unable to help with account specific issues.
Please select the post that helped you best and mark as the solution. This helps other members in resolving their issues faster. Thank you.

MI5 · ‎19-08-2020

I have no affiliation whatsoever with O2 or any subsidiary companies. Comments posted are entirely of my own opinion. This is not Customer Service so we are unable to help with account specific issues.
Please select the post that helped you best and mark as the solution. This helps other members in resolving their issues faster. Thank you.

Cleoriff · ‎19-08-2020

Well I have 3 different answers for Q8. I thought it would be easier for me, having lived through the days of imperial weight measurements. Pffftttt!!

Sending answers now as am sick of it.

(What I mean is, if I do it again, I will get another damn answer!!)

Veritas Numquam Perit