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What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following set of questions to discover.

The Questions

1 What country music legend had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack back in 1981?

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

3 What first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

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

6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?

7 Whose report led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?

8 Which piece in chess was originally known as the counsellor?

What Links

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

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

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?

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

15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; 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 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (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 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Spy titles in books: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; John 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: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.