Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this set of questions to discover.
The Questions
1 What country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from wine estates on what mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been airing for 19 years?
7 Which person's findings led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 Which piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; 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; 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: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.