Saturday Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge 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 was named as the 106th what?
3 What first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ vino comes from wine estates on what mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?
7 Whose findings resulted in the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 What piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
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 London lanes.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
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; 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; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
