What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into the following collection of queries to discover.
1 What icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack back in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?
3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from vineyards on what mountain?
6 What BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?
7 Which person's report led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?
8 Which chess piece was initially called the vizier?
9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park Lane; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Oporto?
11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?
12 Caldey; Denny; Flat Holm Island; Lundy; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; grappling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
1 The Man in Black.
2 Canterbury Archbishop.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 River Douro: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.
12 Bristol Channel islands.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Spy titles in books: 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; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
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