Saturday Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into this collection of queries to discover.
The Questions
1 Which icon of country music had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ vino originates from wine estates on which mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Whose report led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 Which piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather; Park; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus; javelin; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; 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; 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: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
