Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into the following collection of queries to find out.
The Queries
1 Which country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 What first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from vineyards on which mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been running for 19 years?
7 Whose report led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 Which piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
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; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
