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

The Questions

1 What icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack 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 In the power industry, what is EfW?

5 Tears of Christ wine comes from wine estates on which mountain?

6 What BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?

7 Whose findings resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?

8 Which chess piece was originally known as the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?

11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?

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

13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin; long jump; pankration; wrestling?

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

15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Solutions

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

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

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

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

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