Saturday Quiz: Test Your Knowledge

What amount of general knowledge do you possess? Plunge into this collection of queries to find out.

The Queries

1 What country music legend had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack in 1981?

2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?

3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?

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

5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from vineyards on which mountain?

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

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

8 Which piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?

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

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

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

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

15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?

In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

10 River Douro: rises in Spain; flows through in 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 Title spies in novels: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.