Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following collection of queries to discover.
The Queries
1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 Which initially met at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from vineyards on which mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been running for 19 years?
7 Whose findings led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 What chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar; Leather; Park; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
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 (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches 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 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 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
