Saturday Quiz: Test Your Knowledge

How much of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following set of questions to discover.

The Queries

1 What icon of country music had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack in 1981?

2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?

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

4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?

5 Tears of Christ vino originates from vineyards on what mountain?

6 What British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?

7 Whose report led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?

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

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Oporto?

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

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

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

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

15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?

In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 Lanes in London.

10 Douro River: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.

11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Spy titles in books: 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: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.