Weekend Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of general knowledge do you possess? Plunge into this set of questions to discover.
The Questions
1 What icon of country music had a close brush with death by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 Which first convened at Ăžingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ vino comes from wine estates on which mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Whose findings led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 Which chess piece was originally known as the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 UrbiĂłn Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; pankration; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
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 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
