Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this set of questions to discover.
The Questions
1 What country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What initially met at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from vineyards on what mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?
7 Which person's report resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 What piece in chess was originally known as the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Title spies in novels: Ian 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: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
