White Room Quiz Wed 12 June 2024

[Mi-Amigo]

Welcome to

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

Today`s WRQ is 8 questions with two questions on each of these categories

   SCIENCE   LITERATURE    ART    FOOD & DRINK

The White Room Quiz is open to all members.

Those wishing to take part must pm me - @Mi-Amigo  - their answers between 12 noon today [Wed] and

03.00am Friday morning.

Please do not post your answers on the thread.

I hope our regular quizzers

@Cleoriff @pgn @gmarkj @MI5 @TallTrees @BobM @Oxonian @J9el @Spenny @Dave-O2 [ @jonsie is away]

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 SCIENCE 1 - What is the chemical symbol for Strontium ?

Q2 LITERATURE 1 - The phrase "brave new world" appears in which Shakespeare play ?

Q3 ART 1 - Which French impressionist artist created the pastel drawing "After the Bath, Woman Drying

                     Herself" between 1890- 1895 ?

Q4 FOOD & DRINK 1 - The name of which Italian pasta translates as "little ears" ?

Q5 SCIENCE 2 - Where in the human body is the jejunium ?

Q6 LITERATURE 2 - In Agatha Christie`s "Murder On The Orient Express", what is the surname of the victim

                                  murdered on the train ?

Q7 ART 2 - How many horses are there in Constable`s painting "Haywain" completed in 1821 ?

Q8 FOOD & DRINK 2 - Which bird appears on the label of bottles of Chianti Classico ?

The White Room Quiz is open to all members of the Community.

Each member must pm [private message] their answers to me [Mi-Amigo] after 12 noon today [Wed 12 June 2024] and before 03.00am Fri 14 June 2024.

Please do not post your answers on the thread.

The answers - and results for each player taking part - will be posted on Fri 14 June 2024.

Each member will be awarded   for each correct answer. In addition, Thinkers will be awarded as follows

THE RULES

Each member must pm [private message] their answers to me Mi-Amigo after 12 noon today [Wed 12 June

2024] and before 03.00am on Fri 14 June 2024.

No member is to post any answer on the thread.

Any answer received after 03.00am on Fri 14 June 2024 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.

[Cleoriff]

@Mi-Amigo

Is Q1 meant to be Strontium?

[Mi-Amigo]

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@Cleoriff wrote:

@Mi-Amigo

Is Q1 meant to be Strontium?

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Yes @Cleoriff there is a typo - what comes from posting at 5am because of internet issue !!

Q1 should read STRONTIUM not stronium

I have asked @Dave-O2  to edit original question as too late for me to do it,

[Cleoriff]

Thanks for getting it changed @Mi-Amigo 🤗

[Cleoriff]

Incoming @Mi-Amigo 

[Mi-Amigo]

Thank you @Dave-O2 for editing/correcting Q1

Thank you @Cleoriff 

like the gif

pm with your answers received

Thank you @MI5 

pm with your answers received

[pgn]

Incoming, @Mi-Amigo -->

[Oxonian]

My entry should be sat in your Inbox @Mi-Amigo ; fairly hard set of questions in my view ! 😂

[pgn]

Q5 meant to be "jejunum" too 😁 @Cleoriff - but by now, most have got it I guess 🤞

[Mi-Amigo]

Thank you @pgn 

and for clever gif

pm with your answers received

Thank you @Oxonian 

pm with your answers received