Weekend Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge

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

The Questions

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

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

3 Which initially met 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 which mountain?

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

7 Whose report led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?

8 What chess piece was originally known as the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?

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

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

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

14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?

15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 The Man in Black.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 Lanes in London.

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

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

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; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.