Saturday Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this set of questions to find out.
The Questions
1 Which icon of country music had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 Which initially met at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from wine estates on which mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Whose report led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 Which piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 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 Douro River: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Title spies in novels: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
