Saturday Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following set of questions to find out.
The Questions
1 What icon of country music had a close brush with death by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 Which initially met at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from vineyards on what mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for 19 years?
7 Which person's findings resulted in the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 What piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus; javelin; long jump; pankration; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
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 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
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; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
