Weekend Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge

What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following set of questions to find out.

The Questions

1 Which country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?

2 Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?

3 What initially met at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

5 Tears of Christ wine comes from wine estates on which mountain?

6 Which British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?

7 Whose report resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?

8 What piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?

What Links

9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?

11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?

12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm Island; Lundy Island; Stert Island; The Wolves?

13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin; long jump; pankration; wrestling?

14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?

15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 Lanes in London.

10 River Douro: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.

11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Title spies in novels: 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: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.