Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of general knowledge do you possess? Plunge into the following collection of queries to discover.
The Questions
1 Which icon of country music had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ wine originates from wine estates on what mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been airing for 19 years?
7 Whose report resulted in the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 What piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; pankration; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; 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; Greene’s The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
