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

The Questions

1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?

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

3 What initially met at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

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

6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?

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

8 What chess piece was originally known as the vizier?

What Links

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

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

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

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

13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?

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

15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 Lanes in London.

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

11 The name Nimrod: from 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: 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; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.

15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.