Weekend Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Plunge into the following collection of queries to discover.
The Questions
1 Which country music legend had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 What first convened at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from wine estates on what mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for 19 years?
7 Which person's findings led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 Which piece in chess was originally known as the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; pankration; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name 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 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
