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 country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 What initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from wine estates on what mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been airing for 19 years?
7 Which person's findings led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 Which piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 River Douro: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
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: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
