White Room Quiz Wed 28 Feb 2024

[Mi-Amigo]

Welcome to

There are two White Room Quizzes each week - one on Monday and one on Wednesday.

Today`s WRQ is 8 questions - with two questions on each of these four categories - 

    PLACES    LITERATURE   TV   SPORT

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 [Wed] and

03.00am Friday morning.

Please do not post your answers on the thread.

I hope our regular quizzers

@Cleoriff @pgn @jonsie @gmarkj @MI5 @TallTrees @BobM @Oxonian @J9el @Spenny @Dave-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 PLACES 1 - The Hoover Dam is on the border of Arizona and which other US State ?

Q2 LITERATURE 1 - In Richard Adam`s children`s book "Watership Down" what is the name of the warren

                                  from which the rabbits leave - at the beginning of the book in Part 1 The Journey ?

Q3 TV 1 - What was the name of the ITV children`s TV programme hosted by Ant and Dec and Cat Deeley

                   from 1998 to 2002 ?

Q4 SPORT 1 - Skateboarding made its Olympic debut at which Olympic Games ?

Q5 PLACES 2 - Darwen and Nelswon are towns in which English county ?

Q6 LITERATURE 2 - "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" is the autobiography by which American writer ?

Q7 TV 2 - In BBC TV crime drama "Silent Witness" what is the name of the character played by Emilia Fox ?

Q8 SPORT 2 - The Scottish Cup Final in June 2023 was won by Celtic. Which football team did they beat ?

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

Each member must pm [private message] their answers to me [Mi-Amigo] after 12 noon today [Wed 28 Feb 2024] and before 03.00am Fri 01 Mar 2024.

Please do not post your answers on the thread.

The answers - and results for each player taking part - will be posted on Fri 01 Mar 2024.

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 28 Feb

2024] and before 03.00am on Fri 01 Mar 2024.

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 03.00am on Fri 01 Mar 2024 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.

[Oxonian]

I assume that there is a typographical error in question 5 ; presumably Nelswon is actually Nelson ? ❓

PM on its way in a moment ! 👍

[jonsie]

Yes @Oxonian 

I live 2 miles from Darwen and around 8 miles from Nelson

and there you go everyone....a clue 😂😂

[Mi-Amigo]

Thank you @gmarkj 

pm with your answers received

[Mi-Amigo]

Thank you @Oxonian 

sorry about the typo, hope it hasn`t spoilt the quiz

pm with your answers received

[Mi-Amigo]

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@jonsie wrote:

I live 2 miles from Darwen and around 8 miles from Nelson

and there you go everyone....a clue 😂😂

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I honestly didn`t know @jonsie lived that close to Darwen and Nelson.

You learn something new everytime with WRQ 😀 .

[pgn]

Incoming, @Mi-Amigo -->

[Mi-Amigo]

Thank you @jonsie 

and thanks for the gif

pm with your answers received

[Dave-O2]

Answers in your inbox @Mi-Amigo 

[jonsie]

Skating to you @Mi-Amigo 

[Mi-Amigo]

Thank you @Dave-O2 

like the gif

pm with your answers received