Weekend Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into this collection of queries to find out.
The Queries
1 What icon of country music had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 What initially met at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from wine estates on what mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been airing for 19 years?
7 Whose report resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 What piece in chess was originally known as the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
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 River Douro: 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; 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 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.