Saturday Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge
How much of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into this set of questions to discover.
The Queries
1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 What first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from vineyards on which mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?
7 Which person's findings led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 Which piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the 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 Spy titles in books: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
