Weekend Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into this collection of queries to find out.
The Queries
1 Which country music legend had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from wine estates on which mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?
7 Which person's report led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 What piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
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; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
