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 Questions
1 What country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from wine estates on which mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been airing for 19 years?
7 Whose findings led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 Which piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; long jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
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 Douro River: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
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: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
