Saturday Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
How much of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following set of questions to discover.
The Queries
1 What country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from vineyards on what mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for 19 years?
7 Whose findings resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 What chess piece was initially called the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; grappling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; 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 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Spy titles in books: 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; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
