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How much of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into this set of questions 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 106th what?

3 Which first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from vineyards on which mountain?

6 What BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?

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

8 What chess piece was initially called the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?

11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?

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

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

14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?

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

In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?

The Solutions

1 The Man in Black.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 Lanes in London.

10 River Douro: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Title spies in novels: Ian 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; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.