Saturday Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into this set of questions to find out.
The Queries
1 What country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What initially met at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ wine comes from wine estates on what mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Which person's findings led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 What piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
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; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.