Weekend Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of common knowledge are you holding? 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 was named 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 Tears of Christ wine comes from wine estates on which mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been airing for 19 years?
7 Whose report resulted in the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 Which chess piece was originally known as the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin; broad jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Title spies in novels: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; John 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: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
