Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Plunge into the following collection of queries to find out.
The Questions
1 What country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 What initially met at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from vineyards on which mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?
7 Which person's findings led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 Which piece in chess was initially called the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; long jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; 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 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Title spies in novels: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
