Saturday Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into the following set of questions to find out.
The Queries
1 What country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 Which first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from vineyards on what mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?
7 Which person's report resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 Which chess piece was originally known as the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus; javelin throw; long jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 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; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
