Weekend Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
How much of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following collection of queries to find out.
The Queries
1 What country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What first convened at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from vineyards on which mountain?
6 Which British television comedy 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 initially called the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar; Leather; Park; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Title spies in novels: 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 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
