Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of general knowledge are you holding? Plunge into the following collection of queries to find out.
The Questions
1 Which country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ vino comes from wine estates on what mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?
7 Which person's findings resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 Which chess piece was originally known as the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; long jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Title spies in novels: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Graham 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; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
