Weekend Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
How much of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following set of questions to discover.
The Queries
1 What icon of country music had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What initially met at Ăžingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from wine estates on which mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been airing for 19 years?
7 Which person's findings led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 What piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 UrbiĂłn Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Title spies in novels: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Graham 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; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
