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How much of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into this collection of queries to find out.

The Questions

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

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

3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?

4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?

5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from vineyards on what mountain?

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

7 Which person's report resulted in 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; Leather; Park; Pudding Lane?

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

11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?

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

13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus; javelin; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?

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

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

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

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

11 Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; 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; 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; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.