Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of general knowledge do you possess? Plunge into this set of questions to find out.
The Questions
1 What icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 What initially met at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from wine estates on what mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been running for 19 years?
7 Which person's findings led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 What chess piece was initially called the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; long jump; pankration; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Title spies in novels: 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 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
