Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of general knowledge do you possess? Dive into this set of questions to discover.
The Questions
1 Which icon of country music had a close brush with death by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 What first convened at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from wine estates on what mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for 19 years?
7 Whose findings led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 Which piece in chess was initially called the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather; Park; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; broad jump; pankration; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of 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: 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; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
