Saturday 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 country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from wine estates on what mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been running for 19 years?
7 Whose report led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 What piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather; Park; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
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 Events in the ancient Olympics.
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; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
