Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this set of questions to find out.
The Queries
1 What country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 What initially met at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ wine originates from wine estates on what mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Whose report resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 Which chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar; Leather; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
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; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
