Weekend Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge
How much of general knowledge do you possess? Plunge into this set of questions to find out.
The Questions
1 What country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ wine comes from vineyards on what mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been running for 19 years?
7 Which person's findings led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 Which chess piece was originally known as the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped 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 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
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; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
