Saturday Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of general knowledge do you possess? Dive into this set of questions to find out.
The Queries
1 Which icon of country music had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 What first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from wine estates on what mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Whose report led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 Which chess piece was initially called the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar; Leather Lane; 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; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin; broad jump; pankration; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
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; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.