Weekend Quiz: Test Your Knowledge

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

The Queries

1 Which icon of country music had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?

2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?

3 What first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from vineyards on what mountain?

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

7 Which person's report led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?

8 Which piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?

Common Connections

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?

14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?

15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Solutions

1 The Man in Black.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 Lanes in London.

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

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Title spies in novels: 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 and Bullets Over Broadway.