Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following collection of queries to discover.
The Queries
1 Which icon of country music had a close brush with death by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 What initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from vineyards on what mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been airing for 19 years?
7 Whose findings resulted in the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 Which chess piece was initially called the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin; broad jump; pankration; grappling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Spy titles in books: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; 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; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
