Saturday Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge
How much of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following set of questions to find out.
The Questions
1 What country music legend 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 initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ vino originates from vineyards on what mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Which person's findings resulted in the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 What chess piece was originally known as the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; long jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Title spies in novels: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.