Saturday Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following set of questions to find out.
The Queries
1 Which country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from wine estates on which mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Which person's findings resulted in the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 What piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; 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 (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Spy titles in books: 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; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
