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What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into the following collection of queries to discover.

The Queries

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

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from vineyards on which mountain?

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

7 Whose report resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?

8 What chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?

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

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

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

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

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

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 Lanes in London.

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

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

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Spy titles in books: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; 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; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.