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

The Questions

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

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

5 Tears of Christ vino originates from vineyards on what mountain?

6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?

7 Whose findings led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?

8 What chess piece was initially called the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?

11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?

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

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

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

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

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 Lanes in London.

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

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Spy titles in books: 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 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.