Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of general knowledge do you possess? Plunge into this collection of queries to find out.
The Questions
1 What country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 Which first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from vineyards on what mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Whose findings led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 Which piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; long jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Spy titles in books: 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 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
