Weekend Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge
How much 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 from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 What first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from wine estates on what mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?
7 Which person's findings led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 Which piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; long jump; pankration; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
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 Douro River: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; from 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: 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; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
