Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of general knowledge do you possess? Plunge into this collection of queries to find out.
The Queries
1 Which country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ wine comes from vineyards on what mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Which person's findings led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 What chess piece was originally known as the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; pankration; grappling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Spy titles in books: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
