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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 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 WRQ includes two popular "oddest questions" - one on "Coins"; one on "Distances"
TODAY`S EIGHT QUESTIONS
Q1 [SCIENCE - 1] What, in the human body, is the mandible better known as?
Q2 [MOVIES - 1] Who played the character Charles Xavier in the X-men movies?
Q3 [SPORT - 1] What is a fletching in archery?
Q4 [ODD- 1: COINS] Which current British coin is the smallest in diameter?
Q5 [SCIENCE - 2] How many atoms of oxygen are in a molecule of water?
Q6 [MOVIES - 2] In which movie did Mel Gibson portray the Scottish hero William Wallace?
Q7 [SPORT - 2] Madisons and pursuits are terms in which sport?
Q8 [ODD - 2: DISTANCE] In pre-metric measurements, how many feet are there in a furlong?
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 [Wed 3 June] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thursday 4 June]
- allowing 36 hours to pm your answers.
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The answers - and results for each player taking part - will be posted on morning of Fri 5 June.
Each member will be awarded 
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
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I'm old enough to remember feet and inches etc unlike the kids of today....
5280 feet in a mile. 8 furlongs to a mile. so 5280/8 = 660
5280 feet in a mile. 8 furlongs to a mile. so 5280/8 = 660
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Well done everyone! Great fun as always. 
Looking forward to Mondays quiz.
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Woooooow a Red Thinker! 
Congrats everyone and thanks @Mi-Amigo , fun questions this time and looking forward to the next set. I loved it that you included an X-Men question in there.
'Mandible' was familiar to me from watching Bones TV series.
I will go for the Silver next time @Martin-O2 , @LukasB watch out 
Oh and... furlong? I thought of these. 
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Thank you @Cleoriff @MI5 @Anonymous @pgn @LukasB @Martin-O2 and @Marjo for your comments.
I`m really pleased everyone enjoyed this quiz and found it interesting.
Good luck with the questions on Monday and watch out @Marjo is going for a Silver Thinker - eight correct answers on
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@MI5 wrote:
I'm old enough to remember feet and inches etc unlike the kids of today....
5280 feet in a mile. 8 furlongs to a mile. so 5280/8 = 660
Who on earth figured anyone would remember 5280 feet in a mile? Sheesh, and not even Google or Bing to ask back then 😉
Counting money in 12s, and weight in 16s, was bad enough. I can't even remember fluid oz, pints, US and Imperial gallons conversion units. Oh, and don't forget Fahrenheit. No wonder we were taught how to use logarithm tables at school, at least you did not have to remember those!
Still, look what we do with all the spare time and mental capacity we now have available to us as a result of not having to remember all this schtuff 😂
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It's amazing the sort of use(less) things you remember... ie 1760 yards in a mile
Then you had furlong, chain, link, rod,pole or perch. (the last 3 remembered due to fishing) 
All imperial measurements in our school tables (back in the day) 
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I`m an oldie and I loved learning imperial measurements at school.
Feet, yards, perch, poles, chains - wooo; pints, quarts and gallons - great
No calculators, just two things - a brain and a memory
I don`t do metric - nope 
No centimetres, metres, kilometres for me and you can all keep yer litres
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Thank you @Anonymous
Pleased you enjoyed the quiz.
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