Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into this collection of queries to find out.
The Queries
1 Which icon of country music had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 What first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from vineyards on which mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Which person's report led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 What chess piece was initially called the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Spy titles in books: 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: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
