Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of general knowledge are you holding? Plunge into this set of questions to find out.
The Questions
1 What icon of country music had a close brush with death by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which initially met at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ vino comes from vineyards on what mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Which person's report resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 What piece in chess was originally known as the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
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: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
