Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into the following set of questions to find out.
The Questions
1 Which country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich 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 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from wine estates on what mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?
7 Which person's findings led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 What piece in chess was originally known as the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus; javelin; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
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 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Spy titles in books: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
