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What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following collection of queries to find out.

The Questions

1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack back in 1981?

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

3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Tears of Christ vino originates from vineyards on which mountain?

6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?

7 Whose findings led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?

8 What piece in chess was initially called the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?

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

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

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

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

15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?

In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

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

11 Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

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