Weekend Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge
How much of general knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following collection of queries to discover.
The Queries
1 What icon of country music had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 Which first convened at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ wine originates from vineyards on what mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?
7 Which person's report led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 Which piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; grappling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Title spies in novels: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.