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What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following set of questions 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 has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?

3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?

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

5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from vineyards on what mountain?

6 What BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?

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

8 Which piece in chess was initially called the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?

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

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

13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; long jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?

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

15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?

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 (UK's second longest-running comedy)

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 Lanes in London.

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

11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Title spies in novels: 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 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.