Weekend Quiz: Test Your Knowledge

What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this set of questions to find out.

The Queries

1 What country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?

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

3 Which first convened at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?

4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?

5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from vineyards on which mountain?

6 What British television comedy has been running for 19 years?

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

8 What chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin; long jump; pankration; wrestling?

14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?

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

In deep water by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 Queen.

9 London lanes.

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

11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

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; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.

15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.

Alexandra James
Alexandra James

Award-winning investigative journalist with over 15 years of experience covering political and social issues across Europe.