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What amount of common knowledge do you possess? 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 has been appointed as the 106th what?

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

4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?

5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from vineyards on what mountain?

6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?

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

8 What chess piece was initially called the counsellor?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?

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

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

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

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

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

In deep water by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)

7 Lord Justice Taylor (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 Title spies in novels: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

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