White Room Quiz Wed 24 Nov 2021

[Mi-Amigo]

Welcome to

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 four categories

- PEOPLE    SPACE    WORDS   GAMES

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 [Wednesday] and 11.59pm tomorrow [Thursday].

Please do not post your answers on the thread.

I hope our regular quizzers

@Cleoriff   @pgn  @jonsie  @MI5  @gmarkj  @TallTrees  @BobM  @lewys-gp  @RafaC  @Martin-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 PEOPLE 1 Who married Louis VII of France in 1137 and Henry II of England in 1152 ?

Q2 SPACE 1   The asteroid Ceres is between which two planets in our Solar System ?

Q3 WORDS 1 What facial feature did the 19th century word epalpebrate refer to ?

Q4 GAMES 1  On a UK Monopoly board, how many Chance and Community Chest spaces are there in total ?

Q5 PEOPLE 2  Josephine Cochraine, American inventor, patented which household appliance in 1885 ? 

Q6 SPACE 2    Falcon was the lunar module on which Apollo moon mission ?

Q7 WORDS 2  The word caprine relates to which animal ?

Q8 GAMES 2   In which game did Deep Blue beat Gary Kasparov ?

The White Room Quiz is open to all members of the Community.

Those who want to take part must send a pm [private message] to me [Mi-Amigo] with their answers between 12 noon today [Wed 24 Nov 2021] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thurs 25 Nov 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 26 Nov 2021

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 24 Nov 2021] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thurs 25 Nov 2021].

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Thur 25 Nov 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

@Mi-Amigo  

[RafaC]

Thanks for letting us know @Cleoriff and I hope everything's sorted on @Mi-Amigo's end as soon as possible. Hope he keeps safe and well too.

[pgn]

Duvet and a large thermos of something warm to drink, @Mi-Amigo - hope the heating repair man comes sooner rather than later...

Thanks for the update, @Cleoriff  👍

[TallTrees]

Thank you @Cleoriff  for the information.

I couldn't get my "answer" in yesterday.

Terrible time for heating to fail.  Hope Engineer can fix soon.  

[BobM]

Thanks for letting us all know @Cleoriff 

It's no fun when the heating breaks down and hopefully it won't be too long till its fixed.

[Martin-O2]

Thanks for the heads up @Cleoriff! @Mi-Amigo I hope the heating is restored soon and don't worry about the quiz answers. We can wait until you've warmed up. 🙂

[lewys-gp]

Thanks for the update, @Cleoriff. Fingers crossed everything gets sorted ASAP for you, @Mi-Amigo. Stay safe and as warm as you can 🙏.

[gmarkj]

Cheers for the update @Cleoriff and sorry to hear of your heating woes @Mi-Amigo!

Friends of ours had their boiler go a couple of weeks ago before it started getting really cold, and have borrowed lots of portable heaters until their plumber can get to them.

Unfortunately they need to replace it (it's a back boiler, behind their fireplace) so they decided to also upgrade all their pipes and radiators too!! So not only no heating but also lots of carpet/planks/flooring up and mess everywhere...

[Cleoriff]

Due to @Mi-Amigo living in rented property, he is at their mercy really. He rang as soon as the heating went off a couple of days ago and they said they would text the engineer. By 6pm he hadn't been in touch, so @Mi-Amigo phoned the engineer who hadn't even read the text! When he rocked up yesterday, he said certain parts needed changing and he wouldn't be able to get them until this afternoon. No joke at all.

[Mi-Amigo]

I`m back.

Thank you @Cleoriff for your phone call and for posting the message on the thread and for your advice.

Thank you @Cleoriff @RafaC @pgn @TallTrees @BobM @Martin-O2 @lewys-gp @Cleoriff for your kind words, much appreciated.

Cleoriff has explained the situation. I have been trying to keep warm by going to bed and drinking hot drinks. I got up for when carers came. To be honest, carers and the private letting agent have done what they could to help me. With being in my 70s, my health condition, I worried about risk at risk of hyperthermia, pneumonia, or flu, and admit I did get upset, annoyed, and had times of self-pity.

The good news is the heating engineer turned up about an hour ago, replaced the switch, rewired it to the boiler, fired the boiler up and waited and then checked all the radiators to make sure everything is working. It is and now have heat and house is warming up nicely.

I will reply to the WRQ posts, give the answers, results and awards shortly.

Thank you each and everyone of you. 

[jonsie]

A relief for everyone that you now have heating @Mi-Amigo 

I know from personal experience how lack of heating affects body and mind