Weekend Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test

How much of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following collection of queries to discover.

The Queries

1 Which country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?

2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?

3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?

5 Tears of Christ wine originates from wine estates on what mountain?

6 Which British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?

7 Whose findings led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?

8 What piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?

Common Connections

9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding?

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?

11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?

12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves?

13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; pankration; grappling?

14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?

15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?

In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

10 River Douro: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.

11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Spy titles in books: 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; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.

Shane Waters
Shane Waters

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