Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following set of questions to discover.
The Queries
1 What icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 What first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from vineyards on what mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Which person's report led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 Which piece in chess was originally known as the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de UrbiĂłn; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from 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: Ian 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; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
