Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following set of questions to find out.
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 106th what?
3 What initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ wine originates from wine estates on which mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?
7 Whose report resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 What piece in chess was originally known as the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin; long jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Title spies in novels: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Joseph 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.
