Saturday Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into this collection of queries to discover.
The Questions
1 Which country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed 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 Lacryma Christi wine originates from vineyards on what mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Whose report resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 What chess piece was initially called the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
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 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
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: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
