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

The Questions

1 Which country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich back in 1981?

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

3 What first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?

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

5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from wine estates on which mountain?

6 What BBC sitcom 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; Chancery Lane; Hangar Lane; Leather Lane; 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; Flat Holm; Lundy Island; Stert; The Wolves?

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

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

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

In deep water by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

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 London lanes.

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

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Title spies in novels: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.

15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.