Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of general knowledge do you possess? Plunge into the following set of questions to discover.
The Queries
1 What country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ vino originates from wine estates on what mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Which person's report led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 Which chess piece was initially called the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in 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: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
