Weekend Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into this collection of queries to discover.
The Questions
1 What country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What initially met at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from wine estates on what mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?
7 Whose report led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 What chess piece was initially called the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar; Leather; Park; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; long jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
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 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
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; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
