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

The Questions

1 What icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?

2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named 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 Tears of Christ wine originates from vineyards on which mountain?

6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?

7 Which person's report resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK?

8 Which chess piece was originally known as the vizier?

What Links

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In deep water by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 The Man in Black.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

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

11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; 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; 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: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.