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

The Queries

1 Which country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich back in 1981?

2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?

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

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

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

6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?

7 Which person's findings led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?

8 What chess piece was originally known as the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?

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

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

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

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

15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?

In deep water by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

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 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

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

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Title spies in novels: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; John 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: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.