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

The Questions

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

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

3 What initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from wine estates on which mountain?

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

7 Which person's report led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK?

8 What chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?

What Links

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

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

11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?

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

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

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

15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 The Man in Black.

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 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

10 River Douro: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Title spies in novels: Ian 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 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.