Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into this collection of queries to discover.
The Questions
1 Which country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
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 findings resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 Which piece in chess was initially called the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus; javelin; long jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Title spies in novels: 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: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
