What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following set of questions to find out.
The Queries
1 Which 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 first convened at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Tears of Christ vino originates from wine estates on what mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?
7 Whose report led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 Which piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves Islands?
13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin; long jump; pankration; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 Johnny Cash.
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 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; SAS operation codename.
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; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
