Saturday Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge
How much of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into the following set of questions to discover.
The Queries
1 Which country music legend had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from vineyards on which mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for 19 years?
7 Which person's report resulted in the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 What chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
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 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
