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What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this set of questions to find out.

The Queries

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

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

3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

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

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

7 Whose report led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?

8 Which piece in chess was initially called the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?

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

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

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

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

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

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 Lanes in London.

10 River Douro: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.

11 Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Title spies in novels: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; 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: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.