Weekend Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into the following set of questions to find out.
The Queries
1 What country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from wine estates on what mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Whose findings resulted in the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 What chess piece was initially called the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Title spies in novels: 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; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
