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Saturday 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 icon of country music had a close brush with death 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 does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from wine estates on what mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for 19 years?
7 Which person's report resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 Which chess piece was initially called the vizier?
Common Connections
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; long jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
In deep water by the Tordesillas question?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Ancient Olympic events.
14 Spy titles in books: 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 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
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