Weekend Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following set of questions to discover.
The Questions
1 What icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ wine comes from vineyards on what mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Which person's findings resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 What piece in chess was initially called the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Spy titles in books: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; 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; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
