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How much of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following set of questions to find out.

The Questions

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

2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?

3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

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

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

7 Which person's report resulted in the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the UK?

8 Which chess piece was originally known as the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?

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

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

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

14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; 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 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

6 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; travels through 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: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; 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.