Weekend Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this collection of queries to find out.
The Queries
1 Which country music legend 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 Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from vineyards on which mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been running for 19 years?
7 Which person's findings resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 What piece in chess was originally known as the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
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 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Spy titles in books: 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: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
