Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test

What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into this collection of queries to discover.

The Queries

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

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

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

4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?

5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from wine estates on what mountain?

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

7 Which person's findings resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?

8 What chess piece was originally known as the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?

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

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

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

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

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

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

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

11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.

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; 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; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.