Weekend Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into the following set of questions to find out.
The Questions
1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from vineyards on which mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been airing for 19 years?
7 Which person's findings led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 Which piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; long jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount 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; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from 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: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; 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; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
