Weekend Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
How much of general knowledge are you holding? Plunge into the following set of questions to find out.
The Questions
1 What icon of country music had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from wine estates on what mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?
7 Whose findings led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 Which chess piece was initially called the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus; javelin; long jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Title spies in novels: 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: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
