Weekend Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into the following collection of queries to find out.
The Questions
1 What country music legend had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 What first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ vino originates from wine estates on which mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for 19 years?
7 Which person's findings resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 What chess piece was initially called the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
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 (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
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; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
