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What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into this set of questions 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 one hundred and sixth what?

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

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

5 Tears of Christ wine comes from vineyards on what mountain?

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

7 Which person's report resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?

8 Which chess piece was initially called the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?

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

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

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

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

15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the 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 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 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.