Saturday Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge
How much of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this 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 What initially met at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ wine originates from wine estates on which mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been airing for 19 years?
7 Which person's report resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 What piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Title spies in novels: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
