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White Room Quiz - Wed 27 May 2020

Mi-Amigo
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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 O2 Guru @O2John 

 

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 EIGHT QUESTIONS

 

Q1 [HISTORY - 1] Which King of England was Eleanor of Aquitaine married to?

      

Q2 [MUSIC - 1] Which was the first British group to have a US Number 1 single in the Billboard charts?

 

Q3 [GAMES - 1] How many points is the letter X worth in Scrabble?

 

Q4 [LITERATURE] Who wrote the novel "Moll Flanders"?

 

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

 

Q6 [MUSIC - 2] Which musical instrument has 47 strings?

 

Q7 [GAMES - 2] How many finger holes are there in a ten-pin bowling ball?  

 

Q8 [LITERATURE] - 2] Who, in a Charles Dicken`s novel, has a friend called Smike?

 

Note: One of the questions is a QI-style question, where the answer is not what most people think

plus, there is a surprise regarding one of the questions - all will be revealed on Friday

 

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 [Wednesday 27 May] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thursday 28 May]

- 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 Friday morning 29 May.

 

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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Each member must pm [private message] their answers to me [Mi-Amigo] after 12 noon today [Wed 27 May 2020] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thurs 28 May 2020].

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Thursday 28 May 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 the quiz gives a little light relief.

Have fun.

 

@Mi-Amigo  

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THE SURPRISE:

 

When I posted the questions, I did say there would be a surprise with this quiz.

Here it is

 

Q1 [HISTORY - 1] Which King of England was Eleanor of Aquitaine married to?

A1 Henry II

 

This was the £1 million question on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, which Judith Keppell correctly answered and became the first person to win £1 million on the show.

But Judith had four answers to choose from - inc Henry I and Henry II

 

I am pleased to announce that, without a multichoice -

@Cleoriff  @MI5  @jonsie  @pgn  @gmarkj 

all answered the question correctly

 

The White Room Quizzers have, between them, now

got a question right which Paul Sinha got wrong on The Chase

got a question right which some of the UK best quizzers got wrong on Ch 4`s The Hardest Question

and have now got a question right which won £1 million on WWTBAM  

 

No longer can Jeremy Vine claim that the Eggheads are "possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain",

they are here - in the White Room

 

Thank you Bow

 

@Mi-Amigo 

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And NO coughing @Mi-Amigo  rofl

 

PS, I really can't stand those Eggheads. Such a smarmy, patronising bunch of knowalls!!

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@Cleoriff wrote:

And NO coughing @Mi-Amigo  rofl

 

PS, I really can't stand those Eggheads. Such a smarmy, patronising bunch of knowalls!!


Totally agree about Eggheads @Cleoriff

There was BBC4 prog about quiz shows shown last weekend. Kevin from Eggheads was on, boasting about having the record number of points on Mastermind. He didn`t mention he has lost his title of Britain`s Quiz Champion.  

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Glad I plumped for Telstar and neither of Acker Bilk or One Direction for Q2! 😎

Great quiz, @Mi-Amigo - take the weekend off 😁
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It was Daphne who riled me. A woman who I would have no problem giving her a 'smack upside her head' rofl

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Thanks @pgn 

Glad you enjoyed this quiz.

Not too much off a weekend off, as I`ll be sorting out the questions for Monday and Wednesday`s quizzes.

 

Just to give everyone a bit of a heads up

Monday`s quiz will be eight questions - with two from each of these four categories

    PLACES   ART   WORDS   TV

and will be drawn from my quiz books and classed as "easier" or "medium" so everyone has a chance. 

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Glad I plumped for Telstar and neither of Acker Bilk or One Direction for Q2! 😎

Great quiz, @Mi-Amigo - take the weekend off 😁

@pgn Wasn't Acker Bilk the first person? Just not the first group.....

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@Cleoriff wrote:

@pgn Wasn't Acker Bilk the first person? Just not the first group.....


You`re right @Cleoriff - according to the Guiness Book Of Hit Records 

Although known as Acker Bilk and his jazzband, the record label read just Acker Bilk.

Luckily no-one gave it as an answer in the quiz so avoided a discussion smiling

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Although known as Acker Bilk and his jazzband, the record label read just Acker Bilk.

Luckily no-one gave it as an answer in the quiz so avoided a discussion smiling


I came 🤏 this close to giving you Acker Bilk, @Mi-Amigo - hence my earlier response about "direction" 🤣

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@Martin-O2 put us to shame @Marjo 

 

Thanks @Mi-Amigo can't wait for Monday so we will never speak of this round again haha

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