Saturday Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into this collection of queries to discover.
The Questions
1 Which country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from wine estates on which mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?
7 Whose findings resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 What chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
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 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
