Saturday Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge

What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this collection of queries to find out.

The Queries

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

2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?

3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from wine estates on what mountain?

6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for 19 years?

7 Which person's report led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?

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

Common Connections

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

9 London lanes.

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

11 The name 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 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; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.

Cheryl Finley
Cheryl Finley

Cybersecurity expert with over a decade in data protection, specializing in secure cloud architectures and privacy compliance.