Weekend Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of general knowledge do you possess? Plunge into the following collection of queries to discover.
The Questions
1 What icon of country music had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from vineyards on which mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been airing for 19 years?
7 Which person's report resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 What chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; pankration; grappling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom 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; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Spy titles in books: 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: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
