Saturday Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this collection of queries to discover.
The Queries
1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What initially met at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ vino originates from vineyards on which mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?
7 Whose findings resulted in the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 What piece in chess was originally known as the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
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; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
