Saturday Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge

How much of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into the following collection of queries to find out.

The Questions

1 What icon of country music had a close brush with death by an ostrich back in 1981?

2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?

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

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

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

6 What BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?

7 Which person's report resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?

8 Which piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?

11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?

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

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

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

15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 Queen.

9 London lanes.

10 River Douro: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Title spies in novels: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Graham 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; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.