Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into the following set of questions to discover.
The Questions
1 Which country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 Which first convened at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from wine estates on what mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?
7 Whose report led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 What chess piece was originally known as the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped 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 (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Title spies in novels: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
