Weekend Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of general knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following set of questions to find out.
The Queries
1 Which country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 Which first convened at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from wine estates on which mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been airing for 19 years?
7 Which person's findings resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 Which chess piece was initially called the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; long jump; pankration; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
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 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
