Saturday Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of general knowledge do you possess? Plunge into this collection of queries to find out.
The Questions
1 What icon of country music had a close brush with death by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 Which first convened at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ vino originates from wine estates on which mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been airing for 19 years?
7 Which person's findings led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 What piece in chess was originally known as the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar; Leather; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; long jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Title spies in novels: 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 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
