What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this set of questions to discover.
The Questions
1 What country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich back in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 What first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from wine estates on which mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?
7 Whose report led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 Which piece in chess was initially called the vizier?
What Links
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; long jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?
The Answers
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of 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; John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.
