Weekend Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
How much of general knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following set of questions to find out.
The Questions
1 What country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from wine estates on what mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?
7 Whose findings resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 What chess piece was originally known as the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; long jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Spy titles in books: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; John 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: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
