Weekend Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of general knowledge do you possess? Plunge into this collection of queries to discover.
The Questions
1 Which icon of country music had a close brush with death by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ vino originates from wine estates on which mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Whose report resulted in the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 What piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; long jump; pankration; grappling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; 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 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Title spies in novels: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
