Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of general knowledge do you possess? Plunge into the following set of questions to find out.
The Queries
1 What country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What initially met 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 wine estates on which mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been airing for 19 years?
7 Whose findings led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 Which chess piece was originally known as the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Title spies in novels: Ian 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; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
