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White Room Quiz - Wed 27 May 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 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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Toughest one yet for me, great work @Mi-Amigo!

 

Good luck everyone! 

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Mi-Amigo
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Thanks @Martin-O2 

pm with your eight answers received

 

Thanks @Marjo 

pm with your eight answers received

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Holy Smikes, he's cranking them out... 👌

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Mi-Amigo
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Morning guys

I`ve, so far, received pms with eight answers from

@Cleoriff  @LukasB @Martin-O2 and @Marjo 

 

A gentle reminder to the other regulars

@gmarkj @MI5  @jonsie @Anonymous @pgn 

you still have plenty of time - until 11.59pm tonight [Thursday] - to pm me your answers.

I know some of you have said the questions are a bit harder this time, but hope you will have a go and make a guess.

Look forward to hearing from you

Thank you and Good luck

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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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Had a bash.....
Some sneaky worded ones in there methinks slight_smile
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Thank you @MI5 

pm with your eigh answers received

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No problem @jonsie 

Look forward to your pm thumbsup

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Thanks @jonsie 

pm with your eight answers received

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