Saturday Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of general knowledge do you possess? Dive into this collection of queries to discover.
The Questions
1 What icon of country music had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 Which initially met at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Tears of Christ wine originates from wine estates on which mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Which person's report led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 What piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?
Common Connections
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; 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 (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; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Title spies in novels: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; 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: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
