Saturday Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following collection of queries to discover.
The Queries
1 Which icon of country music had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from vineyards on what mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been airing for 19 years?
7 Whose findings resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 What piece in chess was initially called the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather; Park; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Spy titles in books: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
