🔗 Share this article

How much of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this collection of queries to find out.

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 one hundred and sixth what?

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

4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?

5 Tears of Christ wine originates from vineyards on what mountain?

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

7 Whose report led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?

8 Which piece in chess was originally known as the counsellor?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?

11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?

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

13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?

14 James Bond; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?

15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

10 River Douro: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the 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 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 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.