Saturday Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge
How much of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into the following set of questions to discover.
The Questions
1 Which country music legend had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What initially met at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ vino originates from vineyards on which mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been running for 19 years?
7 Which person's findings resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 What piece in chess was initially called the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; long jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Spy titles in books: 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 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
