Saturday Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into the following collection of queries to discover.
The Queries
1 Which country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 What initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ vino originates from vineyards on which mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?
7 Which person's findings led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 What chess piece was originally known as the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
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; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
