Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following collection of queries to discover.
The Queries
1 Which country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ wine comes from wine estates on what mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been airing for 19 years?
7 Which person's report resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 Which chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus; javelin; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
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 (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
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; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
