Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following set of questions to find out.
The Questions
1 Which country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ wine comes from vineyards on what mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?
7 Which person's findings led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 What piece in chess was initially called the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
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; Joseph 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, Bullets Over Broadway.