Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into the following set of questions to discover.
The Questions
1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What 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 vino originates from wine estates on what mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?
7 Which person's findings resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 Which piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; pankration; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
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 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
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 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
