Weekend Quiz: Test Your Knowledge
How much of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into this collection of queries to find out.
The Queries
1 What icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which first convened at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ vino comes from vineyards on what mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Whose findings resulted in the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 What piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin; long jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Spy titles in books: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
