Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following collection of queries to find out.
The Questions
1 Which country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 What initially met at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from vineyards on which mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?
7 Whose findings resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 What piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Spy titles in books: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
