Saturday Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge

What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Plunge into the following set of questions to discover.

The Questions

1 Which country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich back in 1981?

2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?

3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

5 Tears of Christ vino comes from vineyards on what mountain?

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

7 Which person's report resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?

8 What chess piece was initially called the counsellor?

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Oporto?

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

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

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

14 James Bond; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?

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

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

6 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; empties into the Atlantic.

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

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Title spies in novels: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.

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