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What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into this collection of queries to discover.

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 Which first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?

4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?

5 Tears of Christ vino comes from vineyards on what mountain?

6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?

7 Whose findings led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?

8 Which chess piece was originally known as the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?

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

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

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

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

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

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 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; reaches Atlantic.

11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; in 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; 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: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.