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What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following collection of queries to find out.

The Queries

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

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

3 What initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?

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

5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from vineyards on what mountain?

6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing 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 counsellor?

What Links

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

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

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

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

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

14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?

15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?

In deep water by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

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; reaches Atlantic.

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

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Spy titles in books: 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; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.