Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of general knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following collection of queries to discover.
The Queries
1 What country music legend had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 What first convened at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from vineyards on what mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Whose report led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 What chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus; javelin throw; broad jump; pankration; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
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 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
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 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.