Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test

How much of general knowledge do you possess? Dive into this collection of queries to discover.

The Queries

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

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

3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?

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

5 Tears of Christ vino comes from wine estates on which mountain?

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

7 Whose findings resulted in the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the UK?

8 Which chess piece was originally known as the vizier?

Common Connections

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

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

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

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

13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; wrestling?

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

15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

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

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

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

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

15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.