Weekend Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into the following collection of queries to discover.
The Questions
1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 Which first convened at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ wine comes from vineyards on which 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 UK?
8 Which piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
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 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from 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: 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; 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, Bullets Over Broadway.