Weekend Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test

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

The Queries

1 Which icon of country music had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?

2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?

3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?

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

5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from vineyards on which mountain?

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

7 Whose findings resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK?

8 Which chess piece was originally known as the vizier?

What Links

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

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

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

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

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

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

15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?

In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

9 London lanes.

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

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