Weekend Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge

How much of general knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following collection of queries to find out.

The Questions

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

2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?

3 What first convened 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 What BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?

7 Whose findings resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?

8 What piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?

11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?

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

13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin; broad jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?

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

15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

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

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

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

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