Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of general knowledge are you holding? Plunge into the following collection of queries to discover.
The Queries
1 What country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 What initially met at Ăžingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ wine originates from wine estates on what mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for 19 years?
7 Whose report led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 What chess piece was initially called the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 Sierra de UrbiĂłn; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
In deep water 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 (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; 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; Greene’s The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
