Saturday Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following set of questions to find out.
The Queries
1 What country music legend had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from vineyards on what mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been running for 19 years?
7 Whose report led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 What chess piece was initially called the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus; javelin; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of 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; Joseph 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.
