Weekend Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge
What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following collection of queries to find out.
The Questions
1 Which country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 What first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ vino originates from wine estates on what mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Which person's findings resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 What chess piece was originally known as the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; grappling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
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; Greene’s The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
