Weekend Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following set of questions to discover.
The Questions
1 What country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 Which first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from vineyards on which mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?
7 Whose report led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 Which piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; long jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Title spies in novels: Ian 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: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
