Weekend Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into this collection of queries to discover.
The Questions
1 What icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 What initially met at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from vineyards on what mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Which person's findings resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 What chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Spy titles in books: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
