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White Room Quiz - "oddest questions" 4

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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

 

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                  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  

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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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THE RESULTS

 

@LukasB 

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

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

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

plus, for more than four correct answers, also awarded

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Red Thinker

 

@Cleoriff 

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

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

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

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Silver Thinker

 

@Marjo 

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

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

Q8 2080 - incorrect

Total = star and half star

 

@jonsie 

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

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

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

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Silver Thinker

 

@MI5 

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

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

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

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Silver Thinker

 

more results in next post....

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Girl in a jacket


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

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Glad I chose my 50/50 correctly slight_smile
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I conflated 2 questions. How many seconds to get a Skoda to 60....🤣🤪
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RESULTS continued:

 

@gmarkj 

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

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

Q8 correct - awarded star

plus, for more than four correct answers, also awarded

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Red Thinker

 

@Anonymous 

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

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

Q8 correct - awarded star

Total: star star star + half star

 

@Martin-O2 

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

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

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

Total: star star + half star

 

@pgn 

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

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

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

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Bronze Thinker

 

@O2John 

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

Q5 correct - awarded star  Q6 pass    Q7 correct - awarded star 

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

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Bronze Thinker

 

@Anonymous 

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

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

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

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Bronze Thinker

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Love this example of an Ambigram

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@Mi-Amigo wrote:

RESULTS continued:

 

@gmarkj 

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

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

Q8 correct - awarded star

plus, for more than four correct answers, also awarded

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Red Thinker

 

 


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

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AWARDS - for this week:

 

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

 

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

 

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Bronze Thinker - six correct = @O2John  @Anonymous 

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

star + half star - 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 star

 

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

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I think @Mi-Amigo has done everyone

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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? 🙄😳LOL

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

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

Looking forward to hearing about the two quizzes per week. thumbsup

 

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Well done everyone slight_smile
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