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 What country music legend had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What initially met at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ wine comes from wine estates on what mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for 19 years?
7 Which person's report led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 Which piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; long jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches 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 Title spies in novels: 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: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
