Saturday Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this set of questions to discover.
The Queries
1 What country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 Which initially met at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from wine estates on which mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been airing for 19 years?
7 Which person's report resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 Which piece in chess was originally known as the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; grappling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Title spies in novels: Ian 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 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
