Weekend Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge

How much of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following collection of queries to discover.

The Queries

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

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

3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Tears of Christ vino comes from wine estates on which mountain?

6 Which British television comedy has been airing for 19 years?

7 Which person's findings resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?

8 Which chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; pankration; grappling?

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

15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; 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 Lanes in London.

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

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

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Title spies in novels: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; 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; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.