Weekend Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge
How much of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this set of questions to find out.
The Queries
1 Which country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 What first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ vino originates from wine estates on which mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been running for 19 years?
7 Whose report resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 Which chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; 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; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus; javelin; long jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Spy titles in books: 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 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
