Weekend Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into this collection of queries to find out.
The Queries
1 What country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 Which initially met at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ vino comes from wine estates on what mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?
7 Which person's findings led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 Which chess piece was initially called the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; pankration; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
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; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
