Saturday Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test

What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following collection of queries to discover.

The Questions

1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?

2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?

3 Which initially met 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 originates from wine estates on which mountain?

6 Which British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?

7 Which person's report led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK?

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

Common Connections

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?

14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?

15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 Lanes in London.

10 Douro River: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.

11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Title spies in novels: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.