Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Plunge into the following collection of queries to discover.
The Questions
1 Which country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 What initially met at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from wine estates on which mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?
7 Whose findings resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 What chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin; broad jump; pankration; grappling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; 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 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Title spies in novels: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; 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: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
