Saturday Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
How much of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into this set of questions to find out.
The Questions
1 What country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 What first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from wine estates on what mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been running for 19 years?
7 Which person's findings led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 What piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
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 London lanes.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
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; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
