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How much of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into this collection of queries to discover.

The Questions

1 What country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich back in 1981?

2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?

3 What initially met at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?

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

5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from vineyards on what mountain?

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

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

8 Which piece in chess was initially called the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?

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

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

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

14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?

15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?

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 The sitcom 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; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

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