Saturday Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into this set of questions to find out.
The Queries
1 Which country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which first convened at Ăžingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ vino comes from wine estates on which mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?
7 Which person's findings led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 Which chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park; Pudding?
10 UrbiĂłn Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; long jump; pankration; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Title spies in novels: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; 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: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.