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.

Tammy Anderson
Tammy Anderson

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