Saturday Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test

What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into this set of questions to find out.

The Questions

1 What country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack back in 1981?

2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?

3 What initially met at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from wine estates on what mountain?

6 Which British television comedy has been running for 19 years?

7 Which person's report led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?

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

What Links

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?

11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?

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

13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus; javelin; long jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?

14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?

15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Solutions

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

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

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

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; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.

15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.

Mrs. Mindy Carey
Mrs. Mindy Carey

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