Saturday Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge
How much of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following collection of queries to find out.
The Queries
1 What country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ vino originates from vineyards on which mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Which person's findings led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 Which piece in chess was initially called the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar; Leather; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; 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; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
