Weekend Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of general knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following set of questions to discover.
The Questions
1 What country music legend had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ wine originates from vineyards on which mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Whose findings led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 What chess piece was initially called the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
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 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Spy titles in books: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
