Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following set of questions to discover.
The Questions
1 What icon of country music had a close brush with death by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 Which first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from vineyards on what mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been running for 19 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; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Title spies in novels: Ian 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; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
