🔗 Share this article Weekend Quiz: Test Your Knowledge What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this set of questions to find out. The Questions 1 What country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981? 2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what? 3 What initially met at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930? 4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW? 5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from vineyards on what mountain? 6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years? 7 Whose report resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK? 8 What chess piece was initially called the counsellor? Common Connections 9 Brick; Chancery Lane; Hangar; Leather; Park; Pudding Lane? 10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto? 11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege? 12 Caldey; Denny Island; Flat Holm; Lundy; Stert Island; The Wolves? 13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; pankration; wrestling? 14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona? 15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian? In deep water by the Tordesillas question? The Solutions 1 Johnny Cash. 2 Archbishop of Canterbury. 3 Althing (parliament). 4 Energy from waste. 5 Vesuvius. 6 The sitcom Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom) 7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990). 8 The queen piece. 9 Lanes in London. 10 River Douro: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic. 11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation. 12 Bristol Channel islands. 13 Ancient Olympic events. 14 Spy titles in books: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent. 15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.