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What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this set of questions to discover.

The Questions

1 What icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich back in 1981?

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

3 What first convened at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?

5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from wine estates on which mountain?

6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?

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

8 What chess piece was initially called the counsellor?

What Links

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

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

11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?

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

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

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

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

In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

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

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Spy titles in books: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Graham 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.