How much of general knowledge are you holding? Plunge into this set of questions to find out.
1 What country music legend had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack in 1981?
2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?
3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?
4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?
5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from vineyards on which mountain?
6 What British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?
7 Whose findings resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?
8 What piece in chess was originally known as the counsellor?
9 Brick Lane; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather; Park; Pudding?
10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; 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; The Wolves?
13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?
14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?
15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?
Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?
1 Johnny Cash.
2 Archbishop of Canterbury.
3 Althing (parliament).
4 Waste-to-energy.
5 Mount Vesuvius.
6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)
7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).
8 The queen piece.
9 Lanes in London.
10 Douro River: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.
11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.
12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.
13 Events in the ancient Olympics.
14 Title spies in novels: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.
15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.
