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 find out.
The Questions
1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 Which first convened at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from vineyards on which 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 UK?
8 Which piece in chess was initially called the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Title spies in novels: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; 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: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
