Saturday Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
How much of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this collection of queries to find out.
The Queries
1 What icon of country music had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 What first convened at Thingvellir in 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 Which 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 What piece in chess was initially called the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from 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 Title spies in novels: Ian 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 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
