Saturday Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into this set of questions to find out.
The Queries
1 What icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 What first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ wine comes from wine estates on what mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been running for 19 years?
7 Which person's findings led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 What chess piece was initially called the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; pankration; grappling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Spy titles in books: 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; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
