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What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into this collection of queries to find out.

The Questions

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

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Tears of Christ vino comes from vineyards on what mountain?

6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?

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

8 What chess piece was initially called the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?

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

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

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

14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?

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

In deep water by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (parliament).

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 Lanes in London.

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

11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; 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; Greene’s The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.