Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of general knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following set of questions to find out.
The Questions
1 What icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from vineyards on which mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been running for 19 years?
7 Whose report led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 Which piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 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: rises in Spain; travels through 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; Greene’s The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
