Saturday Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following set of questions to discover.
The Questions
1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ wine originates from wine estates on which mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been running for 19 years?
7 Which person's findings resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 What chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus; javelin; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Spy titles in books: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
