Weekend Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of general knowledge do you possess? Plunge into this set of questions to discover.
The Questions
1 What icon of country music had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 Which initially met at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from wine estates on what mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been airing for 19 years?
7 Whose report resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 What chess piece was initially called the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 UrbiĂłn Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Son 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 contests; discus; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Spy titles in books: 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 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
