Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following set of questions to discover.
The Queries
1 What icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 What first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ wine originates from wine estates on which mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Which person's report led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 What piece in chess was originally known as the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; pankration; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Title spies in novels: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; 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, Bullets Over Broadway.
