Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into this collection of queries to discover.
The Queries
1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which first convened at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ wine comes from wine estates on what mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?
7 Which person's report resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats 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 Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
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 (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
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; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
