Saturday Quiz: Test Your Knowledge

How much of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following collection of queries to find out.

The Queries

1 What country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich back in 1981?

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

3 Which initially met at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

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

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

7 Which person's findings led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?

8 Which chess piece was originally known as the vizier?

What Links

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

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

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?

14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?

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

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 Lanes in London.

10 River Douro: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.

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

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Spy titles in books: Ian 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 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.