Saturday Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge

What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Plunge into this set of questions to find out.

The Questions

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

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

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

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

5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from vineyards on which mountain?

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

7 Which person's findings led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?

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

What Links

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

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

11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?

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

13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?

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

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

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

10 River Douro: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.

11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

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

15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.