Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this collection of queries to discover.
The Queries
1 Which country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 What first convened at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ wine originates from wine estates on which mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been airing for 19 years?
7 Which person's report led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 Which piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; 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; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.