Weekend Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of general knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following collection of queries to find out.
The Questions
1 What icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ vino originates from vineyards on which mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been running for 19 years?
7 Whose findings resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 Which piece in chess was initially called the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
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; Joseph 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.
