Weekend Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this set of questions to find out.
The Questions
1 Which country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 What initially met at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from vineyards on which mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?
7 Whose findings resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 What chess piece was initially called the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; long jump; pankration; grappling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; 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 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Title spies in novels: 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; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
