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There are two White Room Quizzes each week - one on Monday and one on Wednesday.
Today`s White Room Quiz is eight questions - with two questions from each of these categories
PEOPLE WORDS MOVIES EVENTS
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 @gmarkj @MI5 @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 PEOPLE 1 What is the first name of Earl Spencer, brother of Princess Diana ?
Q2 WORDS 1 What does the word "fluviatile" mean ?
Q3 MOVIES 1 Which Bond villan was played by Terry Savalis and by Donald Pleasance in James Bond movies ?
Q4 EVENTS 1 The Lantern Festival in Japan celebrates the harvest of which crop ?
Q5 PEOPLE 2 Which US President was the first to make a televised address from the White House in 1947 ?
Q6 WORDS 2 From the language of which country did the word "yacht" originate ?
Q7 MOVIES 2 What was the name of the character played by Tom Cruise in the movie "Born on the 4th of July" ?
Q8 EVENTS 2 Fierljeppen is an event held in the Dutch province of Friesland. What does the event involve ?
[please no gifs of the event, so as not to give away the answer 
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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 20 Jan 20121] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thurs 21 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 22 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 20 Jan 2021] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thurs 21 Jan 2021].
No member is to post any answer on the thread.
Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Thurs 21 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
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I thought rice was too obvious an answer....I over-estimated your trickery @Mi-Amigo 
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@Mi-Amigo wrote:
@jonsie wrote:I thought rice was too obvious an answer....I over-estimated your trickery @Mi-Amigo
I couldn`t be that tricky - given there were a couple of difficult questions already in the quiz @jonsie
No the trick was in the blumming lanterns. As I said Japan has so many lantern festivals...even one for the dead.
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Yes, indeed: varying degrees of despicability 
PS: Love it, @Mi-Amigo 
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@jonsie wrote:
Nah... "A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong!" 💪👍
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