Weekend Quiz: Test Your Knowledge

What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into the following set of questions to find out.

The Questions

1 Which country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?

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

3 What first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?

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

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

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

7 Which person's report resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?

8 Which chess piece was originally known as the vizier?

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?

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

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

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

14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?

15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; 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 Waste-to-energy.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

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

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

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; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

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