Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following collection of queries to find out.
The Questions
1 What 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 initially met at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from vineyards on which mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Which person's report led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 Which piece in chess was originally known as the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin; long jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Title spies in novels: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; John 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: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
