Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into this set of questions to discover.
The Queries
1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from wine estates on which mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?
7 Which person's report led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 Which piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; grappling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
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 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: starts 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 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
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 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
