Saturday Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into this set of questions to find out.
The Questions
1 What icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 What initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from wine estates on which mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?
7 Which person's report led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 What piece in chess was originally known as the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
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; Greene’s The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
