Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into this set of questions to discover.
The Queries
1 What country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 Which first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from wine estates on what mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?
7 Whose findings led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 What chess piece was initially called the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
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; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
