Weekend Quiz: Test Your Knowledge

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

The Queries

1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich 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 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?

5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from wine estates on which mountain?

6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?

7 Which person's findings resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?

8 What chess piece was originally known as the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?

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

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

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

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

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

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (parliament).

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 Lanes in London.

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

11 Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Title spies in novels: 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; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.

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