Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of general knowledge do you possess? Plunge into the following set of questions to find out.
The Queries
1 What country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 What initially met at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ wine originates from wine estates on which mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Whose report led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 Which chess piece was originally known as the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; from 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; John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; 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.
