Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into this set of questions to find out.
The Questions
1 Which icon of country music had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ vino originates from wine estates on which mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for 19 years?
7 Whose findings resulted in the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 What piece in chess was initially called the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in 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; Joseph 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, Bullets Over Broadway.
