Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of general knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following set of questions to discover.
The Queries
1 What country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ wine comes from vineyards on what mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for 19 years?
7 Which person's report resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 Which piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; long jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
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 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Title spies in novels: 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 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
