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What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this set of questions to find out.

The Queries

1 What icon of country music had a close brush with death by an ostrich back in 1981?

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

3 What initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from wine estates on what mountain?

6 What British television comedy has been running for 19 years?

7 Whose report resulted in the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?

8 What 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; Zamora; Oporto?

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

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

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

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

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

In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

10 River Douro: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.

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

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

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