Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following set of questions to discover.
The Queries
1 What country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ vino originates from wine estates on which mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?
7 Whose report resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 What chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; pankration; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Spy titles in books: 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; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
