Weekend Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of general knowledge do you possess? Dive into this collection of queries to find out.
The Queries
1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 What initially met at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from vineyards on what mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Whose report resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 Which chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; long jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Spy titles in books: 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 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
