Saturday Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into this set of questions to discover.
The Queries
1 What icon of country music had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?
2 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 is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ vino comes from vineyards on which mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Whose report resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 Which piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 UrbiĂłn Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
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 London lanes.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches 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 Spy titles in books: 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; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
