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

The Queries

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

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

3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

5 Tears of Christ wine originates from vineyards on which mountain?

6 Which 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 initially called the counsellor?

What Links

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?

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

15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom)

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

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

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

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Title spies in novels: 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; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.