Weekend Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Plunge into this collection of queries to find out.
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 one hundred and sixth what?
3 What first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ vino comes from wine estates on what mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been running for 19 years?
7 Which person's findings led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 What chess piece was initially called the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 Sierra de UrbiĂłn; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Title spies in novels: 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 and Bullets Over Broadway.
