Weekend Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge
How much of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following collection of queries to find out.
The Queries
1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 Which first convened at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from wine estates on which mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for 19 years?
7 Which person's report led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 Which chess piece was originally known as the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount 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 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
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; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
