Weekend Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Plunge into this set of questions to discover.
The Questions
1 What country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from wine estates on what mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Whose findings led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 Which chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus; javelin throw; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
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 London lanes.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; travels through 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: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; John 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; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.