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

The Questions

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

2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?

3 What first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

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

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

7 Whose report resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?

8 What chess piece was initially called the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?

11 Son 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 racing; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; wrestling?

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

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

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

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

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

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