Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this set of questions to find out.
The Questions
1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from vineyards on which mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for 19 years?
7 Which person's report resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 What piece in chess was originally known as the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; pankration; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
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; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
