Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of general knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following set of questions to find out.
The Queries
1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from vineyards on which mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for 19 years?
7 Whose report resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 Which piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: 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; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
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; 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; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
