Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this collection of queries to discover.
The Queries
1 Which country music legend had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed 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 does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ wine comes from wine estates on what mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?
7 Whose findings resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 Which piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
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 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Title spies in novels: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; 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.
