Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this collection of queries to discover.
The Queries
1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed 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 Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ vino comes from wine estates on which mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?
7 Which person's findings led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 What chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches 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 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 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
