Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of general knowledge are you holding? Plunge into this set of questions to discover.
The Questions
1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich back 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 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ wine originates from wine estates on what mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been running for 19 years?
7 Whose report led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 What chess piece was initially called the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus; javelin; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
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 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
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; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
