Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this set of questions to discover.
The Questions
1 What country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ vino comes from vineyards on which mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been airing for 19 years?
7 Whose findings led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 Which chess piece was originally known as the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
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; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
