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White Room Quiz - Wed 24 June 2020

Mi-Amigo
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Welcome to

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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  @OldFart  @gmarkj  @WispaRed7 

 

 O2 Community managers @Marjo @Martin-O2  @LukasB 

 

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.

 

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

 

      HISTORY  GEOGRAPHY  SPACE  GAMES

    

TODAY`S EIGHT QUESTIONS

 

Q1 [HISTORY - 1]  Which English King was nicknamed "Rufus"?   

      

Q2 [GEOGRAPHY - 1]  In which continent is the Gobi Desert?

 

Q3 [SPACE - 1] Ganymede is a moon of which planet in our solar system?

 

Q4 [GAMES - 1] Which indoor game was invented by British Army officers in India in 1875?

 

Q5 [HISTORY - 2] In which war was the Battle of Jutland? 

 

Q6 [GEOGRAPHY - 2] Which strait links San Francisco Bay and the Pacific?

 

Q7 [SPACE - 2] The main asteroid belt in our solar system is between which two planets?

                          [correctly name both for a star; half star awarded for one correct] 

 

Q8 [GAMES - 2] How many "tricks" make up a Grand Slam in the card game Bridge?  

 

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 24 June] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thursday 25 June]

- 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 26 June.

 

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

 

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                  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 24 June 2020] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thurs 25 June 2020].

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Thursday 25 June 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, and any, or all, of the O2 Gurus - @O2Karl  @O2Jenny  @O2Abigail ? - 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.

I have tried to make this quiz a mix of easier and not-so-easy questions - and hope that all of you find the quiz fun.

 

@Mi-Amigo  

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Some people see things as they are and ask "Why?"; I dream of things that never were and ask "Why not?"
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Cleoriff
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That's brilliant @pgn  thumbsup

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Am pleased with my Red Thinker award

well done all

Thank you for compiling the quiz @Mi-Amigo 

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Mi-Amigo
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Thank you @pgn 

Much appreciated

 

Thank you @Anonymous 

Pleased you liked the quiz and Well Done getting a Red Thinker

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

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