Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into this set of questions to discover.
The Questions
1 What icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What first convened at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ vino originates from wine estates on which mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?
7 Whose report led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 What chess piece was initially called the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Spy titles in books: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; 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: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
