Saturday Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Plunge into this collection of queries to find out.
The Queries
1 What country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ wine comes from vineyards on what mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?
7 Whose findings resulted in the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 What chess piece was originally known as the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus; javelin; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Spy titles in books: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; John 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; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
