Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following collection of queries to discover.
The Questions
1 Which icon of country music had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 What first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ wine comes from vineyards on which mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?
7 Which person's findings led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 What piece in chess was initially called the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
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 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 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Title spies in novels: 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 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
