Weekend Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into this collection of queries to find out.
The Questions
1 What country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 What first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from wine estates on what mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?
7 Whose report led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 Which chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
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 London lanes.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
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: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.