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How much of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this set of questions to discover.

The Queries

1 What country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack back in 1981?

2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?

3 What initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?

5 Tears of Christ wine originates from vineyards on which mountain?

6 What BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?

7 Which person's findings led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?

8 Which piece in chess was initially called the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Oporto?

11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?

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

13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; grappling?

14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?

15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 The Man in Black.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

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

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

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Title spies in novels: 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: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.