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 Queries
1 Which country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 What initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ vino comes from vineyards on which mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Whose findings led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 What chess piece was originally known as the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Title spies in novels: Ian 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; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
