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How much of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into the following collection of queries to find out.

The Queries

1 What country music legend had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack back in 1981?

2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?

3 Which first convened at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?

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

5 Tears of Christ vino comes from wine estates on which mountain?

6 Which British television comedy has been airing for 19 years?

7 Which person's report led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the UK?

8 Which chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?

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

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

13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus; javelin; broad jump; pankration; grappling?

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

15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; 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 (second longest-running UK sitcom)

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 Lanes in London.

10 River Douro: 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 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

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