Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of general knowledge are you holding? Plunge into the following collection of queries to discover.
The Queries
1 What icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 What initially met at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ wine comes from vineyards on what mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Whose findings resulted in the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 What chess piece was initially called the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; long jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the 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 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; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
