Weekend Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
How much of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into this set of questions to discover.
The Queries
1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 What initially met at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from vineyards on what mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Which person's report led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 Which chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
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 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
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; Greene’s The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
