Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into this set of questions to discover.
The Queries
1 What country music legend had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ wine originates from vineyards on what mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?
7 Whose report resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 Which chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; grappling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Spy titles in books: Ian 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: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
