Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of general knowledge do you possess? Plunge into the following collection of queries to discover.
The Questions
1 What country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from wine estates on which mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?
7 Whose findings resulted in the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 What piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather; Park; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water 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 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Spy titles in books: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
