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

The Queries

1 Which country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich back in 1981?

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

3 Which first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Tears of Christ vino originates from wine estates on which mountain?

6 What BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?

7 Which person's report led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?

8 What piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; 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 Island; Stert Island; The Wolves?

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

14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?

15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?

In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

9 London lanes.

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

11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; 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; John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Graham 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; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.