White Room Quiz - Wed 27 May 2020 - Page 3

Mi-Amigo · ‎27-05-2020

Welcome to

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

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 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

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

pgn · ‎28-05-2020

I'm struggling to get a sense of direction on one of these questions, y'know, @Mi-Amigo... I think it's going to be a flash of inspiration or more likely just a damp squib 🤔

Incoming presently >>>🤏

Links to O2 Social Media Team here

Mi-Amigo · ‎28-05-2020

@pgn wrote:
I'm struggling to get a sense of direction on one of these questions, y'know, @Mi-Amigo... I think it's going to be a flash of inspiration or more likely just a damp squib 🤔

Incoming presently >>>🤏

Thanks @pgn

Look forward to your pm with eight answers

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

Mi-Amigo · ‎28-05-2020

Thank you @pgn

pm with your eight answers received

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

Anonymous · ‎28-05-2020

pm sent ... all guesses

Mi-Amigo · ‎28-05-2020

Thank you @Anonymous

pm with your eight answers received

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

Mi-Amigo · ‎29-05-2020

Thank you @gmarkj

pm with your eight answers received before the 11.59pm deadline last night - so allowed

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

Mi-Amigo · ‎29-05-2020

THE ANSWERS:

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

A1 Henry II

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

A2 QI-style question - NOT The Beatles

The correct answers is The Tornados with Telstar

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

A4 8

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

A4 Daniel Defoe

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

A5 Revolutionary War of America aka American War of Independance

[NOT American Civil War, nor Vietnam War]

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

A6 harp

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

A7 two for fingers, plus one for thumb - so I`ll allow 2 or 3 as answers

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

A8 Nicolas Nickleby

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

Mi-Amigo · ‎29-05-2020

THE RESULTS:

@Cleoriff

Q1 correct - awarded Q2 correct - awarded Q3 correct - awarded

Q4 correct - awarded Q5 correct - awarded Q6 correct - awarded

Q7 correct - awarded Q8 correct - awarded plus, for eight correct answers also awarded

Silver Thinker

@LukasB

Q1 Henry [but didn`t specify which] so, for part answers, I will award half

Q2 Beatles - incorrect Q3 10 - incorrect

Q4 Ned Flanders - incorrect [but thanks for the laugh ]

Q5 World War I - incorrect Q6 correct - awarded Q7 5 - incorrect Q8 Scrooge - incorrect

Total - one and half

@Martin-O2

Q1 pass Q2 Beatles - incorrect Q3 10 - incorrect Q4 pass

Q5 World War II - incorrect Q6 correct - awarded

Q7 correct - awarded Q8 pass

Total - two

@Marjo

Q1 George - incorrect Q2 Beach Boys - incorrect Q3 28 - incorrect Q4 Ernest Hemingway - incorrect

Q5 War of Bunkers Hill - incorrect Q6 banjo - incorrect

Q7 correct - awarded Q8 Huckleberry Finn - incorrect

Total - one

@MI5

Q1 correct - awarded Q2 correct - awarded Q3 correct - awarded

Q4 correct - awarded Q5 correct - awarded Q6 correct - awarded

Q7 correct - awarded Q8 correct - awarded plus, for eight correct answers also awarded

Silver Thinker

@jonsie

Q1 correct - awarded Q2 correct - awarded

Q3 correct - awarded Q4 correct - awarded Q5 American Civil War - incorrect

Q6 correct - awarded Q7 correct - awarded

Q8 correct - awarded plus, for more than six correct answers also awarded

Bronze Thinker

@pgn

Q1 correct - awarded Q2 correct - awarded Q3 correct - awarded

Q4 correct - awarded Q5 correct - awarded Q6 correct - awarded

Q7 correct - awarded Q8 correct - awarded plus, for eight correct answers also awarded

Silver Thinker

@WispaRed7

Q1 Richard I - incorrect Q2 Beatles - incorrect Q3 10 - incorrect

Q4 Thomas Hardy - incorrect Q5 Vietname War - incorrect Q6 correct - awarded

Q7 correct - awarded Q8 correct - awarded

Total - 3

@gmarkj

Q1 correct - awarded Q2 Beatles - incorrect Q3 correct - awarded

Q4 correct - awarded Q5 World War II - incorrect Q6 piano - incorrect

Q7 correct - awarded Q8 correct - awarded plus, for more than 4 correct also awarded

Red Thinker

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

Mi-Amigo · ‎29-05-2020

AWARDS:

Silver Thinker - eight correct answers = @Cleoriff @MI5 @pgn

Bronze Thinker + - seven correct answers = @jonsie

Red Thinker + - five correct answers = @gmarkj

- three correct answers = @Anonymous

- two correct answers = @Martin-O2

+ half - one correct + one part correct = @LukasB

- one correct answer = @Marjo

Thank you, everyone for taking part.

CONGRATULATIONS to the Silver Thinkers - @Cleoriff @MI5 and @pgn

and well done everyone - each of those taking part got an award this time

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

Cleoriff · ‎29-05-2020

Well done everyone.

Another great game @Mi-Amigo

Veritas Numquam Perit