Saturday Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into this set of questions to find out.
The Queries
1 Which icon of country music had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from vineyards on which mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for 19 years?
7 Whose findings resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 What chess piece was initially called the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Offspring 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; javelin; long jump; pankration; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
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; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
