Weekend Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test

What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following collection of queries to find out.

The Questions

1 What country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?

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

3 What first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?

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

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 led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?

8 Which piece in chess was originally known as the counsellor?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; grappling?

14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?

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

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

10 River Douro: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.

11 Nimrod: in Book of 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 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; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.

15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.

Marvin Schroeder
Marvin Schroeder

A science writer and tech enthusiast with a passion for exploring cosmic phenomena and emerging technologies.