Weekend Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into the following set of questions to find out.
The Queries
1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from wine estates on what mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?
7 Whose report resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 Which chess piece was initially called the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; long jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; 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 Energy from waste.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: 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; codename for SAS operation.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Title spies in novels: 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: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
