Weekend Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
How much of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into this set of questions to discover.
The Queries
1 Which icon of country music had a close brush with death 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 Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from wine estates on what mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?
7 Which person's findings led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 What piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
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 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 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; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
