Weekend Quiz: Test Your Knowledge

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

The Queries

1 What icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?

2 Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?

3 What initially met at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?

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

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

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

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

8 What piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?

Common Connections

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

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

11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?

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

13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?

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

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

In deep water 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 (UK's second longest-running comedy)

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

10 River Douro: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

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