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White Room Thursday Quiz 15th Aug 2019

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

 

                                                                 @pgn  

 

The six questions are:

 

Q1 Who is the Australian city of Adelaide named after?

 

Q2 Where are the Islets of Langerhans?

 

Q3 Where did lettered rock [confectionary] originate?

 

Q4 What is a widgeon?

 

Q5 How long is a badmington court?

 

Q6 Which Shakespeare play features the character Puck?

 

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 answer.

You can post one, or more, answer at any time between 00.01 [one minute after midnight] and 23.59 [11.59pm] on Thursday 15 August 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 on Friday 16 August 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 @pgn 

 

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I thought I had 1 good guess & 1 correct

The good guess was incorrect ... I had Blackpool down as the rock question = incorrect

 

I knew Puck was a character in A Mid Summer Night's Dream ... one of Shakespeare's plays I kinda understood att & it was the school play before the whole system was made chaos trying to put a load of old schools together & calling them a comprehensive ... + ... I read PUCK in part in the classroom in an English Literature lesson = correct

 

Thoroughly enjoyed playing along ... it's fun 

Thank you @Mi-Amigo for compiling the quiz

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@gmarkj wrote:
Could guess at 3, know 1 and the other 2 are beyond me...

Well, I was right - I only knew 1!

 

Q1 Who is the Australian city of Adelaide named after?

Didn't have a clue.

Q2 Where are the Islets of Langerhans?

Would have guessed either Sweden/Norway, but clearly not the right answer!

Q3 Where did lettered rock [confectionary] originate?

The obvious answer (Blackpool) was not correct, so would have said somewhere else on the coast (perhaps Gt Yarmouth) but that is also wrong.

Q4 What is a widgeon?

Would not have a clue.

Q5 How long is a badmington court?

Would have guessed and been wrong

Q6 Which Shakespeare play features the character Puck?

This is the only one I knew (as I suspect most do)!

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@pgn 

Well done and thanks for playing. I`m sure, like me, others were impressed you got lettered rock originated in Yorkshire slight_smile

 

@Anonymous 

Thanks for playing along - and, again you got one right thumbsup. The letter rock question was one of the hardest - but now you know it originated in Dewbury, Yorkshire you can impress all your friends grin

  

@gmarkj 

Thanks for playing along. At least you got one right thumbsup . I choose the questions from a range of subjects and obviously some players might find some questions easier than others. I hope you`ll continue to play along and find the next set a bit easier slight_smile

 

Thank you everyone for taking part. It is much appreciated and hope you all continue to enjoy the quizzes. 

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I do enjoy playing along, even if I might not know the answers.
If nothing else it is an opportunity to learn something new!

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With the correct answer to Q3 - George Formby should have recorded "With a little bit of DEWSBURY rock" LOL

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