Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into this collection of queries to discover.
The Queries
1 Which country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 What first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ vino originates from vineyards on what mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?
7 Whose report led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 Which chess piece was initially called the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Spy titles in books: 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 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
