What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this collection of queries to find out.
1 What country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?
2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?
3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?
4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?
5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from wine estates on what mountain?
6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for 19 years?
7 Which person's report led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?
8 What piece in chess was originally known as the counsellor?
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather; Park; Pudding?
10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?
11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?
12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves?
13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; wrestling?
14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Vesuvius.
6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Taylor Report (1990).
8 Queen.
9 London lanes.
10 Douro River: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.
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 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
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