Weekend Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge
How much of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into the following set of questions to find out.
The Questions
1 What country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ vino originates from wine estates on what mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?
7 Whose findings led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 What chess piece was originally known as the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Spy titles in books: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
