Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of general knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following collection of queries to discover.
The Questions
1 What icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ vino comes from vineyards on which mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?
7 Whose report led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 What chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Spy titles in books: Ian 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 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.