Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of general knowledge are you holding? Plunge into the following set of questions to discover.
The Questions
1 Which country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 What first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ vino comes from wine estates on which mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?
7 Whose findings resulted in the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 Which piece in chess was initially called the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?
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 racing; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 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; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Spy titles in books: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Graham 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; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
