Saturday Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of general knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following set of questions to find out.
The Queries
1 What country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from wine estates on which mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?
7 Whose report led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 What piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Title spies in novels: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
