Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following set of questions to find out.
The Questions
1 What country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ vino comes from vineyards on which mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?
7 Which person's report resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 Which chess piece was originally known as the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; pankration; grappling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from 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; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
