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

The Questions

1 Which icon of country music had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack in 1981?

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

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

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

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

6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?

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

8 What piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?

What Links

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?

11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?

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

13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?

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

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

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

9 London lanes.

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

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

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

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; 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; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.