Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of general knowledge do you possess? Plunge into the following collection of queries to find out.
The Queries
1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from wine estates on what mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been airing for 19 years?
7 Which person's findings resulted in the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 Which piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
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: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
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; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
