Weekend Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge
How much of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following collection of queries to discover.
The Questions
1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which first convened at Ăžingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ wine originates from vineyards on which mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for 19 years?
7 Whose report led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 What piece in chess was initially called the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de UrbiĂłn; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
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; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
