Saturday Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into this collection of queries to discover.
The Queries
1 Which country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ wine originates from wine estates on what mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?
7 Which person's findings led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 What chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 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: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Spy titles in books: 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 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
