Re: White Room Quiz Wed 19 Nov 2025 - Page 2

Mi-Amigo · ‎19-11-2025

Welcome to

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

Today`s WRQ is 8 questions, with 2 questions on each of these categories:

PLACES LITERATURE MOVIES FOOD & DRINK

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 @jonsie @MI5 @TallTrees @Oxonian @Dave-O2

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 PLACES 1 - Cerne Abbas Giant chalk figure is in which English county ?

Q2 LITERATURE 1 - Who wrote "The Thirty Nine Steps", first published in 1915 ?

Q3 MOVIES 1 - In 2005 animated movie "Madagascar" Alex was what animal ?

Q4 FOOD & DRINK 1 - What type of foodstuff is Welsh bara brith ?

Q5 PLACES 2 - The Trans-Siberian Railway Great Siberian Route connects Moscow in the west with which

Russian city in the east ?

Q6 LITERATURE 2 - What is the title of John Keats poem which opens with "Seasons of mists and mellow

fruitfulness " ?

Q7 MOVIES 2 - Jerry Travers and Dale Tremont are characters in which 1935 musical movie ?

Q8 FOOD & DRINK 2 - What type of foodstuff is casu marzu ?

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 19 Nov 2025] and before 03.00am Fri 21 Nov 2025.

Please do not post your answers on the thread.

The answers - and results for each player taking part - will be posted on Fri 21 Nov 2025.

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 19 Nov

2025] and before 03.00am on Fri 21 Nov 2025.

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 03.00am on Fri 21 Nov 2025 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.

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

Mi-Amigo · ‎21-11-2025

THE ANSWERS

Q1 PLACES 1 - Cerne Abbas Giant chalk figure is in which English county ?

A1 Dorset

Q2 LITERATURE 1 - Who wrote "The Thirty Nine Steps", first published in 1915 ?

A2 John Buchan

Q3 MOVIES 1 - In 2005 animated movie "Madagascar" Alex was what animal ?

A3 lion

Q4 FOOD & DRINK 1 - What type of foodstuff is Welsh bara brith ?

A4 tea-cake / fruit bread

Q5 PLACES 2 - The Trans-Siberian Railway Great Siberian Route connects Moscow in the west with which

Russian city in the east ?

A5 Vladivostok

Q6 LITERATURE 2 - What is the title of John Keats poem which opens with "Seasons of mists and mellow

fruitfulness " ?

A6 "To Autumn"

Q7 MOVIES 2 - Jerry Travers and Dale Tremont are characters in which 1935 musical movie ?

A7 "Top Hat"

Q8 FOOD & DRINK 2 - What type of foodstuff is casu marzu ?

A8 cheese - with maggots

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

Mi-Amigo · ‎21-11-2025

THE RESULTS

@pgn

Q1 correct Q2 Graham Greene - incorrect Q3 correct Q4 correct .