Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this collection of queries to find out.
The Questions
1 Which country music legend had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ vino comes from vineyards on which mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been running for 19 years?
7 Whose findings resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 Which chess piece was initially called the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Title spies in novels: 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 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
