Weekend Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
How much of general knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following set of questions to discover.
The Questions
1 Which country music legend had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 What initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ vino originates from wine estates on which mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?
7 Whose findings led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 What chess piece was initially called the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of 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; Greene’s The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
