Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into this collection of queries to find out.
The Questions
1 Which country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from vineyards on what mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?
7 Whose report resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 Which chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
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; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
