Weekend Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
How much of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this set of questions to discover.
The Questions
1 What icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What initially met at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ wine originates from wine estates on what mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Whose report led to 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 Lane; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Spy titles in books: 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; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
