Saturday Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this set of questions to find out.
The Queries
1 What icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 What first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from wine estates on what mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Whose report resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 What piece in chess was initially called the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus; javelin; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
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; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
