Weekend Quiz: Test Your Knowledge

What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this set of questions to find out.

The Questions

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

2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?

3 What initially met at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from vineyards on what mountain?

6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?

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

8 What chess piece was initially called the counsellor?

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?

11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?

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

13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?

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

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

In deep water by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

6 The sitcom 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: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Spy titles in books: 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: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.

Kyle Higgins
Kyle Higgins

Elara is a tech journalist and AI researcher with over a decade of experience covering emerging technologies and their impact on society.

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