Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following set of questions to find out.
The Questions
1 What country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from wine estates on what mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Whose findings led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 Which piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; from 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; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
