Saturday Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test

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

The Questions

1 What country music legend had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack in 1981?

2 Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?

3 Which initially met at Ăžingvellir in Iceland in 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from wine estates on which mountain?

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

7 Whose report resulted in the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the UK?

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

What Links

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

10 UrbiĂłn Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?

14 James Bond; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?

15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?

In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?

The Solutions

1 The Man in Black.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

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 Queen.

9 London lanes.

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

11 Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Title spies in novels: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.

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

Robert Ward
Robert Ward

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