Saturday Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into this collection of queries to find out.
The Questions
1 Which country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 What first convened at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ wine originates from wine estates on what mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?
7 Which person's report led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 Which chess piece was originally known as the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Title spies in novels: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; John 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; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
