Weekend Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into the following collection of queries to discover.
The Questions
1 Which country music legend had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ wine originates from wine estates on what mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?
7 Which person's report resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 Which chess piece was initially called the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Energy from waste.
5 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; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
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; Greene’s The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
