Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test

What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into this set of questions to find out.

The Queries

1 Which country music legend had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack in 1981?

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

3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

5 Tears of Christ vino comes from vineyards on which mountain?

6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for 19 years?

7 Whose report resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?

8 Which piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?

What Links

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; long jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?

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

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

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 Queen.

9 London lanes.

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

11 Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Title spies in novels: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.

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