Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into the following set of questions to discover.
The Questions
1 What icon of country music had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 What first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ wine originates from vineyards on what mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been airing for 19 years?
7 Which person's report resulted in the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 What chess piece was initially called the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin; broad jump; pankration; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
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; 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 and Bullets Over Broadway.
