Saturday Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of general knowledge do you possess? Plunge into this collection of queries to discover.
The Queries
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 one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from wine estates on which mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?
7 Which person's report led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 Which chess piece was originally known as the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin; long jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Energy from waste.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; in 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: 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: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
