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White Room Thursday Quiz 10 Oct 2019

Mi-Amigo
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     This week`s contestant, chosen at random by @EmilieT is

 

                                                          @Cleoriff 

 

The six questions are:

 

Q1 [people]: Who, according to Greek legend, slew the Minotaur?

 

Q2 [geography]: Where is the only Cape in England?

 

Q3 [nature]: What is the longest animal?

 

Q4 [literature]: How many lines are there in a sonnet?

 

Q5 [currency]: In which country is the bolivar the currency?

 

Q6 [food and drink]: Which foodstuff has varieties known as Yukon Gold and Russian Banana? 

 

Rules:

You can only give one answer to each question.

You can answer the questions in any order - please copy and paste the question and add your answer.

You can post all of the answers together in one posts; or post one, or more, answer in several posts [as @pgn did previously]; at any time between 00.01 [one minute after midnight] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thursday] 10 October 2019.

Any answer posted before 00.01 or after 23.59 will be declared void.

Please - no googling, Wiki, social media, Youtube in search of the answers.

 

The results, with the correct answers, will be posted either late on Thursday 10 October [after answers have been submitted] or on Friday morning 11 October 2019.

Each correct answer will be awarded a star

If you get all six questions correct, you will be awarded the Silver Thinker

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All members, including those who have already been a contestant or have put their names forward as contestants and those who are considering being a future contestant, are welcome to join in and play along - by making their own list of questions and seeing how many they can get right - but, please do not post your answers on the thread.

 

Thank you for your interest and good luck @Cleoriff 

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@Cleoriff wrote:

Thanks @Mi-Amigo 

To be fair, I like Greek mythology so that was ok for me.

 

I could kick myself about the jellyfish. Lions Mane was the full name. Easy when you see it in print.

(I do have to say that was a quiz question a few years back. Then we put Blue whale and one or two others went for the reticulated python)

I have just looked for an image and found this.

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Credit BBC History Revealed

 

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I will be selecting the six questions over the coming weekend from the following categories:

                                                      History; Words; Games; Science; Music; TV sitcoms

 

As the White Room Thursday Quiz is open to all members, anyone [whether a new member or who has not played before] is welcome to put their name forward as a contestant. Each week, @EmilieT draws a name to be the contestant and answer the six questions. If you would like to be contestant for next week`s White Room Thursday Quiz, please pm me @Mi-Amigo with your name and I will add it to the list of contestants. Everyone can, of course, play along during the quiz by making their list and seeing how many questions they can answer.

 

Thank you everyone for your support and taking part in the quiz.  

 

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@Cleoriff That visual of a blue whale vs the jellyfish is terrifying fearful

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Even more awful @EmilieT  is that they were seen a lot last year, in the seas round Ireland and Cornwall in the UK!! Needless to say, they do sting!!

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Well done @Cleoriff!

I'd have plumped for the Portuguese Man of War jellyfish. Wrongly.

And Cape Wrath, which is Scottish, not English. 🤭

Good quiz, @Mi-Amigo.
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