Saturday Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Plunge into this collection of queries to discover.
The Questions
1 What icon of country music had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from vineyards on which mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for 19 years?
7 Which person's findings led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 What chess piece was initially called the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin; broad jump; pankration; grappling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Title spies in novels: 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: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
