Weekend Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
How much of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into this collection of queries to discover.
The Questions
1 What country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 What initially met at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ vino comes from wine estates on which mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?
7 Whose findings resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 Which chess piece was initially called the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather; Park; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; pankration; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Spy titles in books: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
