Saturday Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of general knowledge do you possess? Plunge into this collection of queries to find out.
The Queries
1 Which icon of country music had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 What first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from wine estates on which mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been running for 19 years?
7 Which person's report resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 What chess piece was initially called the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
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; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
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; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Joseph 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 and Bullets Over Broadway.
