Saturday Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of general knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following collection of queries to find out.
The Queries
1 What country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which initially met at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ wine comes from wine estates on what mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for 19 years?
7 Whose findings led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 Which chess piece was initially called the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; pankration; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Spy titles in books: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
