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

The Questions

1 Which icon of country music had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?

2 Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?

3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?

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

5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from vineyards on what mountain?

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

7 Whose findings led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?

8 Which chess piece was initially called the counsellor?

What Links

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?

11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?

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

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

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

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

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

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

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Spy titles in books: 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 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.