Saturday Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Plunge into this collection of queries to discover.
The Queries
1 What icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ vino originates from wine estates on which mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?
7 Whose findings led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 What chess piece was initially called the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de UrbiĂłn; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount 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: 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 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Spy titles in books: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; 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: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
