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

The Queries

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

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

3 What first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?

5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from vineyards on what mountain?

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

7 Whose findings resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?

8 Which piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?

What Links

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

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

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?

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

15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

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

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Spy titles in books: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.

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