Weekend Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following set of questions to discover.
The Queries
1 Which country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth 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 Tears of Christ wine originates from vineyards on what mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?
7 Which person's report led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 Which piece in chess was originally known as the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de UrbiĂłn; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; grappling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
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 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Spy titles in books: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
