Weekend Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of general knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following set of questions to find out.
The Questions
1 What icon of country music had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 What first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland in 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 nineteen years?
7 Which person's findings led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 What chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Title spies in novels: Ian 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 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
