Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Plunge into the following set of questions to find out.
The Questions
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 What first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from wine estates on which mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been running for 19 years?
7 Which person's report resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 What chess piece was originally known as the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
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; Greene’s The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
