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White Room Quiz Wed 28 Apr 2021

Mi-Amigo
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Welcome to

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There are two White Room Quizzes each week - one on Monday and one on Wednesday.

 

Today`s White Room Quiz is 8 questions with two questions on each of these categories

 

   HISTORY   NATURE    MOVIES    FOOD & DRINK

 

The White Room Quiz is open to all members.

Those wishing to take part must pm me - @Mi-Amigo - with their answers between 12 noon today [Wednesday] and 11.59pm tomorrow [Thursday]

 

I hope our regular quizzers

  @Cleoriff   @pgn   @jonsie  @gmarkj   @MI5   @TallTrees   @TheresaV   @LukasB  @Martin-O2 

  @O2EmmaLouise   @Cairdeas 

and any member, who has taken part in the past or has never taken part, and any new members

will join in with today`s White Room Quiz.

 

TODAY`S EIGHT QUESTIONS

 

Q1 HISTORY 1  Who succeeded George IV as King of England in 1830 ?

 

Q2 NATURE 1   Eyas is a name given to the young of which bird ?

 

Q3 MOVIES 1   "Dream Warriors" and "The Dream Child" were the subtitles of sequals to which

                          horror movie ?

 

Q4 FOOD & DRINK 1  What type of foodstuff is port salut ?

 

Q5 HISTORY 2  Which country did Britain fight in the Arrow War of 1856-60 to further trading rights ?

 

Q6 NATURE  2  Coterie is the collective term for a close knit family unit of which rodent ?

 

Q7 MOVIES  2   What was the name of the space-craft in the first "Alien" movie in 1979 ?

 

Q8 FOOD & DRINK 2  Concorde and Louise Bonne are varieties of which fruit ?

 

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 [Wed 28 April 2021] and 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thurs 29 April 2021]

- allowing 36 hours to pm your answers.

 

Please do not post your answers on the thread.

 

The answers - and results for each player taking part - will be posted on morning of Fri 30 April 2021

 

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

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Each member must pm [private message] their answers to me [Mi-Amigo] after 12 noon today [Wed 28 April 2021] and before 23.59 [11.59pm] tomorrow [Thurs 29 April 2021].

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 23.59 [11.59pm] on Thurs 29 April 2021 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.

 

I hope everyone likes the questions in today`s White Room Quiz, and finds this WRQ fun.

Good luck, everyone

 

@Mi-Amigo  

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Cleoriff
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Looks good @Mi-Amigo. Certainly better than Monday's quiz, where 2 of my answers were guesses. rofl

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TallTrees
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Looking through this @Mi-Amigo 

This is what I think so far

 

Kings/Queens ~ good

Bird ~ good

Movies no good

Food ~ good

Q5 ~ maybe this one

Rodents not my fav. but ok

Movies ~ I may know this but it's only maybe

Fruit  Good

I may get better than 1 if I read the question properly cool



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Mi-Amigo
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Thank you @Cleoriff and @TallTrees 

Pleased you like the questions in today`s WRQ.

I tried to give a good mix of categories and level of difficulty with the questions this time.

Look forward to pm with your answers later.

Good luck.

 

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haha @TallTrees mine will all be guesses

 

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Mi-Amigo
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Thank you @LukasB 

Look forward to pm with your guesses...

you never know, might just pay off

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Mi-Amigo
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Thank you @TheresaV 

pm with your 8 answers received

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At least 2 guesses incoming. 

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Well make them good guesses @LukasB
I know some but others may be a stab in the dark
Which could make a good title for one of Cleoriff's stories!


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Mi-Amigo
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Thank you @MI5 

like the gif

pm with your 8 answers received

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