🔗 Share this article Weekend Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test How much of general knowledge do you possess? Plunge into the following collection of queries to find out. The Questions 1 What country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack back in 1981? 2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what? 3 Which initially met at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930? 4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for? 5 Tears of Christ wine originates from wine estates on which mountain? 6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years? 7 Whose findings resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK? 8 Which piece in chess was initially called the vizier? What Links 9 Brick; Chancery; Hangar; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding Lane? 10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto? 11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege? 12 Caldey Island; Denny; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves Islands? 13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; pankration; wrestling? 14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc? 15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest? Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question? The Solutions 1 Johnny Cash. 2 Canterbury Archbishop. 3 Althing (parliament). 4 Waste-to-energy. 5 Vesuvius. 6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy) 7 Taylor Report (1990). 8 Queen. 9 Lanes in London. 10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic. 11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename. 12 Bristol Channel islands. 13 Ancient Olympic events. 14 Spy titles in books: 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; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.