Saturday Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following set of questions to discover.
The Questions
1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What initially met at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ vino comes from vineyards on which mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been running for 19 years?
7 Whose report led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 What piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
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 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
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; 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, Bullets Over Broadway.
