Weekend Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge
How much of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into this set of questions to discover.
The Queries
1 What icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 What initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ wine comes from vineyards on which mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?
7 Whose findings resulted in the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 What chess piece was initially called the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin; long jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
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; 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; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.