Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following set of questions to find out.
The Questions
1 What country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 What first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from vineyards on what mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?
7 Whose findings led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 Which piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus; javelin throw; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
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 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
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: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Title spies in novels: Ian 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; 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.
