Re: White Room Quiz - "oddest questions" 4 - Page 4

Mi-Amigo · ‎20-05-2020

Welcome to this week`s

As mentioned in the Advanced Notice on Monday, this week`s White Room Quiz is eight questions

which don`t fit into the normal categories from which the questions are usually selected.

There is no QI-style question, where the answer is not what everyone thinks it is.

Good luck, everyone

PLEASE NOTE AMENDED TIMES BELOW FOR SENDING YOUR PM'S WITH ANSWERS

The White Room Quiz is open to all members

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 this week`s White Room Quiz.

THIS WEEK`S EIGHT QUESTIONS

Q1 [MONEY] Which US President is on the US $5 dollar bill?

Q2 [BADGE] Which car company`s badge featured the prow and sail of a Viking longship?

Q3 [CODE] Which country has the International Vehicle Registration code CH for motor vehicles?

Q4 [LETTERS] What is the term for the letters of a word which reads the same upside down as the right way up?

Q5 [CARTOON] Which UK comic featured the character Korky the Cat?

Q6 [THE SKY] What is the name for the type of clouds which form a "mackeral sky"?

Q7 [SAYING] What are the two missing words from "A bird in the ---- is worth two in the ----"?

Q8 [TIME] How many minutes are there is two days ?

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 20 May] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thursday 21 May]

- allowing 36 hours to pm your answers.

Please do not post your answers on the thread.

The answers - and the results for each player taking part - will be posted on Friday morning 22 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 20 May 2020] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] on Thursday 21 May 2020.

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Thursday 21 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 this week`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.

Mi-Amigo · ‎22-05-2020

THE RESULTS

@LukasB

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

Q4 correct - awarded Q5 Peppa Pig - incorrect Q6 cumulus - part correct - awarded half

Q7 hand - correct; bin - incorrect awarded half Q8 correct - awarded

plus, for more than four correct answers, also awarded

Red Thinker

@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

@Marjo

Q1 correct - awarded Q2 Maserati - incorrect Q3 Czech Rep - incorrect Q4 palidrome - incorrect

Q5 Garfield - incorrect Q6 sea clouds - incorrect Q7 tree - incorrect; hand - correct - awarded half

Q8 2080 - incorrect

Total = and half

@jonsie

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

@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

more results in next post....

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

MI5 · ‎22-05-2020

Glad I chose my 50/50 correctly

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pgn · ‎22-05-2020

I conflated 2 questions. How many seconds to get a Skoda to 60....🤣🤪

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Mi-Amigo · ‎22-05-2020

RESULTS continued:

@gmarkj

Q1 pass Q2 correct - awarded Q3 correct - awarded Q4 correct - awarded

Q5 Beano - incorrect Q6 cumulus - part correct - awarded half Q7 correct - awarded

Q8 correct - awarded

plus, for more than four correct answers, also awarded

Red Thinker

@Anonymous

Q1 Eisenhower - incorrect Q2 Volvo - incorrect Q3 correct - awarded Q4 pass

Q5 Beezer - incorrect Q6 cirrius - part answer - awarded half Q7 correct - awarded

Q8 correct - awarded

Total: + half

@Martin-O2

Q1 correct - awarded Q2 Alfa Romeo - incorrect Q3 Cyprus - incorrect Q4 fulcrum - incorrect

Q5 Top Cat - incorrect Q6 cumulius - part answer - awarded half

Q7 pocket - incorrect; sky - incorrect Q8 correct - awarded

Total: + half

@pgn

Q1 correct - awarded Q2 Skoda - incorrect Q3 correct - awarded Q4 correct - awarded

Q5 correct - awarded Q6 correct - awarded Q7 correct - awarded

Q8 172,800 seconds - part correct - awarded half plus, for more than six correct answers, also awarded

Bronze Thinker

@O2John

Q1 correct - awarded Q2 Vauxhall - incorrect Q3 correct - awarded Q4 correct - awarded

Q5 correct - awarded Q6 pass Q7 correct - awarded

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

Bronze Thinker

@Anonymous

Q1 Washington - incorrect Q2 correct - awarded Q3 correct - awarded Q4 pass

Q5 correct - awarded Q6 correct - awarded Q7 correct - awarded

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

Bronze Thinker

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

Cleoriff · ‎22-05-2020

Love this example of an Ambigram

Veritas Numquam Perit

gmarkj · ‎22-05-2020

@Mi-Amigo wrote:

RESULTS continued:

@gmarkj

Q1 pass  Q2 correct - awarded   Q3 correct - awarded  Q4 correct - awarded

Q5 Beano - incorrect Q6 cumulus - part correct - awarded half  Q7 correct - half

Q8 correct - awarded

plus, for more than four correct answers, also awarded



Red Thinker

Can I ask why I only got a half for Q7 @Mi-Amigo ?

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Mi-Amigo · ‎22-05-2020

AWARDS - for this week:

Silver Thinker = eight correct - @Cleoriff @jonsie @MI5

Bronze Thinker + half - six correct + part correct = @pgn

Bronze Thinker - six correct = @O2John @Anonymous

Red Thinker + + 2 half - five correct + 2 part correct = @LukasB

Red Thinker + + half - five correct + 1 part correct = @gmarkj

+ half - three correct + 1 part correct = @Anonymous

+ half : : - two correct + 1 part correct = @Martin-O2

+ half - one correct + 1 part correct = @Marjo

CONGRATULATIONS to this week`s SILVER THINKERS

@Cleoriff @jonsie @MI5

and well done everyone - all those who took part were awarded a Thinker or s

I hope you all enjoyed the quiz and will join in the two White Room Quizzes next week

Details of the "two quizzes a week" will be posted on a new thread a little later today

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

pgn · ‎22-05-2020

I think @Mi-Amigo has done everyone

yet again - thank you, @Mi-Amigo!

Great quiz - one which proves multi-tasking never works, who would ever want to know how many seconds there are in 2 days? 🙄😳

And for those whose mind occasionally descends to the gutter, like mine, I add this simple reminder for the order of words in Q7:

Links to O2 Social Media Team here

Cleoriff · ‎22-05-2020

Well done everyone and thanks again for running the quiz @Mi-Amigo

Looking forward to hearing about the two quizzes per week.

Veritas Numquam Perit

MI5 · ‎22-05-2020

Well done everyone

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