Saturday Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
How much of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into this set of questions to find out.
The Queries
1 What icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ vino originates from vineyards on which mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been running for 19 years?
7 Whose findings resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 What piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
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; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
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; Greene’s The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
