Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into this set of questions to find out.
The Queries
1 What country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 Which initially met at Ăžingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ wine originates from wine estates on which mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?
7 Which person's findings led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 What chess piece was initially called the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de UrbiĂłn; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
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; 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.
