Weekend Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into this set of questions to discover.
The Questions
1 What icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 What first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ vino comes from wine estates on which mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?
7 Which person's report resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 Which piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin; long jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
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; Greene’s The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
