Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into the following set of questions to find out.
The Questions
1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ vino comes from vineyards on which mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Whose findings resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 Which chess piece was initially called the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus; javelin; broad jump; pankration; grappling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
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; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
