Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following set of questions to discover.
The Queries
1 What country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 Which initially met at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ wine originates from wine estates on what mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Which person's report led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 What chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 UrbiĂłn Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
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; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
