Saturday Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge
How much of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into the following collection of queries to find out.
The Queries
1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 What initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from wine estates on which mountain?
6 Which 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 piece in chess was initially called the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
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; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.