Saturday Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following collection of queries to discover.
The Questions
1 What icon of country music had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from vineyards on which mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?
7 Which person's report led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 Which chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; grappling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
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: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.