Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into this collection of queries to discover.
The Questions
1 What icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 What first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ vino comes from vineyards on what mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Whose findings resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 Which piece in chess was initially called the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus; javelin; long jump; pankration; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
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 London lanes.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Title spies in novels: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
