Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into this collection of queries to discover.
The Questions
1 What country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 Which initially met at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ vino originates from vineyards on what mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?
7 Whose findings resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 Which chess piece was originally known as the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
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 Taylor Report (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; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
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; 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; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
