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What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this collection of queries to find out.

The Queries

1 Which country music legend had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack in 1981?

2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?

3 What initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

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

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

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

8 Which chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?

What Links

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

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

11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?

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

13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; pankration; grappling?

14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?

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

In deep water by the Tordesillas question?

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 The queen piece.

9 Lanes in London.

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

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

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Spy titles in books: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.