Saturday Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into this collection of queries to find out.
The Queries
1 What country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 Which initially met at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ wine originates from wine estates on what mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?
7 Whose report resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 Which chess piece was initially called the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; grappling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Spy titles in books: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; 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: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
