Weekend Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge

How much of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following set of questions to discover.

The Queries

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

2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?

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

4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?

5 Tears of Christ vino originates from vineyards on what mountain?

6 What British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?

7 Which person's report resulted in the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?

8 Which piece in chess was initially called the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?

11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?

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

13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?

14 James Bond; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?

15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?

In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

10 Douro River: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.

11 The name Nimrod: from 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 Spy titles in books: Ian 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 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.