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How much of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into this collection of queries to find out.

The Questions

1 Which country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack back in 1981?

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

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

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Tears of Christ vino comes from wine estates on what mountain?

6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for 19 years?

7 Which person's findings led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?

8 Which chess piece was initially called the counsellor?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?

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

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

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

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

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

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 Queen.

9 London lanes.

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

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

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Title spies in novels: 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; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.