Saturday Quiz: Put Your Smarts to the Test

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

The Queries

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

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

3 What initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?

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

5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from wine estates on which mountain?

6 What British television comedy has been airing for 19 years?

7 Whose report resulted in the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?

8 Which piece in chess was initially called the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?

11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?

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

13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?

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

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

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

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

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

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: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.