Saturday Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge

How much of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into this collection of queries to find out.

The Questions

1 Which country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?

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

3 What initially met at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Tears of Christ vino originates from vineyards on which mountain?

6 What British television comedy has been running for 19 years?

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

8 Which chess piece was initially called the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; long jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?

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

15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?

In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

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

11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; 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; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

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