Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into this 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 initially met at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ wine comes from vineyards on what mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Whose report resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 Which chess piece was originally known as the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; long jump; pankration; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; from 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: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; John 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: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
