Weekend Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of general knowledge are you holding? Plunge into this set of questions to find out.
The Questions
1 Which icon of country music had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from wine estates on which mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?
7 Which person's findings resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 Which chess piece was initially called the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name 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 Title spies in novels: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; John 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: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
