Saturday Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into this set of questions to discover.
The Queries
1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 Which initially met at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ wine originates from wine estates on which mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been airing 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 initially called the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Title spies in novels: 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; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
