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 Queries

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

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

3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?

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

5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from vineyards on what mountain?

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

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

8 Which piece in chess was initially called the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?

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

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

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

14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?

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

In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 Queen.

9 London lanes.

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

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Spy titles in books: 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; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

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