Saturday Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into this set of questions to find out.
The Questions
1 What icon of country music had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of 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 What BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Which person's findings led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 Which piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name 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: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; 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; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
