White Room Thursday Quiz - 8th Aug 2019

[Mi-Amigo]

         

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

                                                           @gmarkj 

The six questions are:

Q1 Who scored the first goal in the 1966 FIFA World Cup final?

Q2 What type of animal is a leporine?

Q3 Where, according to the rhymn, did the Owl and the Pussycat sail to?

Q4 When was Candlemas?

Q5 How many men did a centurian command in the Roman Empire?

Q6 Which of the Channel Islands is closest to France?

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 8 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 9 August 2019.

Each correct answer will be awarded a 

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

All members, including those who have put their names forward as contestants and those who maybe 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 @gmarkj  

Mi-Amigo

[Mi-Amigo]

Well done @Cleoriff 

As to the World Cup question, it is commonly [but wrongly] thought - as Geoff Hurst scored a hat-trick - that he scored the first goal.

The centurian one is from the QI associated book. I admit that when I first read it, I fell for the wrong answer. 

[Anonymous]

I guessed one correct = The Owl & the Pussycat sailed away to the land where the Bong Tree grows

I thought a centurion was a leader of no soldiers ie he was 1 in a 100 ... = ... incorrect

The other questions I just did not know

Thank you @Mi-Amigo ... it was fun, just having a go at the quiz informally  

[Mi-Amigo]

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@Anonymous wrote:

I guessed one correct = The Owl & the Pussycat sailed away to the land where the Bong Tree grows

I thought a centurion was a leader of no soldiers ie he was 1 in a 100 ... = ... incorrect

The other questions I just did not know

Thank you @Mi-Amigo ... it was fun, just having a go at the quiz informally  

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Pleased you got one right @Anonymous  and you have fun playing along, because that is what the quiz is intended to be.

Good luck everyone with the next one...

[jonsie]

I did slightly worse than Jane....

[Cleoriff]

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@jonsie wrote:

I did slightly worse than Jane....

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Rubbish. You would have known the first scorer world cup footballer

[jonsie]

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@Cleoriff wrote:

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@jonsie wrote:

I did slightly worse than Jane....

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Rubbish. You would have known the first scorer world cup footballer

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yep....I lied

[Anonymous]