Weekend Quiz: Test Your Knowledge

How much of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into this set of questions to discover.

The Queries

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

2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?

3 Which initially met at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

5 Tears of Christ vino comes from vineyards on which mountain?

6 Which British television comedy has been airing for 19 years?

7 Whose report led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?

8 Which piece in chess was initially called the vizier?

Common Connections

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?

11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?

12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves Islands?

13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; grappling?

14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?

15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?

In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

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

11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

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; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.