Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into the following collection of queries to find out.
The Questions
1 Which icon of country music had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which initially met at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from wine estates on what mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been airing 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?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; long jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
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 (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Spy titles in books: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
