Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into this collection of queries to find out.
The Questions
1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which initially met at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ wine comes from vineyards on what mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?
7 Which person's report resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 Which chess piece was originally known as the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
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: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
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; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
