Weekend Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
How much of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into this set of questions to find out.
The Queries
1 What icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ vino comes from wine estates on which mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?
7 Which person's report led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 What chess piece was initially called the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Title spies in novels: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; 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; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
