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What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into this set of questions to find out.

The Queries

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

2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?

3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Tears of Christ vino originates from wine estates on what mountain?

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

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

8 What piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; wrestling?

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

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

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 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: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.

11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Title spies in novels: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; John 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; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.