Saturday Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following set of questions to discover.
The Questions
1 Which icon of country music had a close brush with death by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from vineyards on what mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Whose report resulted in the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 What piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of 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: 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; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
