Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into the following set of questions to discover.
The Queries
1 Which icon of country music had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 Which initially met at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from vineyards on what mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Whose findings led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 Which piece in chess was initially called the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus; javelin; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; 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 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
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 London lanes.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Spy titles in books: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
