Weekend Quiz: Test Your Knowledge

What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into this set of questions to find out.

The Queries

1 Which country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?

2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?

3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in 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 nineteen years?

7 Whose report led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?

8 Which piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?

What Links

9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding Lane?

10 Sierra de Urbión; 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; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?

13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?

14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?

15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

10 River Douro: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.

11 Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.

12 Bristol Channel islands.

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; 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.