What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into the following set of questions to find out.
1 Which country music legend had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 What initially met at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from wine estates on which mountain?
6 Which British television comedy has been running for 19 years?
7 Whose report led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?
8 Which piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather Lane; Park Lane; Pudding Lane?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey Island; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves Islands?
13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 River Douro: 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: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
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