Saturday Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
How much of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following set of questions to find out.
The Questions
1 Which country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ vino originates from wine estates on which mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?
7 Which person's findings resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 What chess piece was originally known as the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
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; 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; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
