Weekend Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge
How much of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following set of questions to find out.
The Questions
1 What icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 Which first convened at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ vino comes from vineyards on what mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Whose findings resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 What chess piece was originally known as the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus; javelin; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Solutions
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
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; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
