Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into this set of questions to discover.
The Questions
1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from wine estates on what mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?
7 Whose report resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 What chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
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; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.