Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into the following set of questions to discover.
The Questions
1 What icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack 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 does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from vineyards on what mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?
7 Whose findings led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 Which chess piece was originally known as the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar; Leather; Park; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus; javelin; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
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; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
