Weekend Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into the following collection of queries to discover.
The Questions
1 What country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ vino comes from wine estates on which mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for 19 years?
7 Which person's report resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 Which chess piece was initially called the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus; javelin; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Title spies in novels: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
