Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of general knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following collection of queries to discover.
The Questions
1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What first convened at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from wine estates on what mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Which person's findings resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 What chess piece was originally known as the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus; javelin; broad jump; pankration; grappling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
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 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Title spies in novels: 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: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
