Saturday Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into this collection of queries to discover.
The Questions
1 What icon of country music had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 Which first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ wine comes from wine estates on what mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for 19 years?
7 Which person's report led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 What piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: starts 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 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; Greene’s The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
