Weekend Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of general knowledge do you possess? Plunge into the following collection of queries to find out.
The Questions
1 What icon of country music had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What initially met at Ăžingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ wine originates from wine estates on what mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?
7 Whose findings resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 Which chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 UrbiĂłn Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
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: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
