Weekend Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into this set of questions to discover.
The Questions
1 What icon of country music was nearly killed 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 Tears of Christ vino originates from wine estates on what mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?
7 Which person's report led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 What chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; pankration; grappling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
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; Greene’s The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
