Saturday Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
How much of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into this set of questions to discover.
The Questions
1 What country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 What initially met at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ wine comes from vineyards on what mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for 19 years?
7 Which person's report led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 What piece in chess was initially called the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus; javelin; broad jump; pankration; grappling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
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 Douro River: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Spy titles in books: 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: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.