🔗 Share this article Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following collection of queries to find out. The Questions 1 What icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich back in 1981? 2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what? 3 What first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930? 4 In the power industry, what is EfW? 5 Tears of Christ wine originates from vineyards on what mountain? 6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years? 7 Which person's report resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom? 8 What piece in chess was originally known as the counsellor? What Links 9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding? 10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto? 11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege? 12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands? 13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling? 14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona? 15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest? Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue? The Solutions 1 Johnny Cash. 2 Canterbury Archbishop. 3 Althing (parliament). 4 Energy from waste. 5 Vesuvius. 6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy) 7 Taylor Report (1990). 8 Queen. 9 Lanes in London. 10 River Douro: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic. 11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename. 12 Bristol Channel islands. 13 Events in the ancient Olympics. 14 Spy titles in books: 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 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.