Saturday Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into the following collection of queries to discover.
The Questions
1 What country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What initially met at Ăžingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from wine estates on what mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been running for 19 years?
7 Which person's findings led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 Which chess piece was originally known as the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 UrbiĂłn Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; pankration; grappling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
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; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
