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What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into this set of questions to find out.

The Queries

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

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

3 Which initially met at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?

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

5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from vineyards on which mountain?

6 What British television comedy has been running for 19 years?

7 Which person's report led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?

8 What chess piece was originally known as the vizier?

What Links

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

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

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; pankration; grappling?

14 Agent 007; 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 (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

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; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Title spies in novels: Ian 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; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.