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

The Queries

1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack back in 1981?

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

3 What initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Tears of Christ vino originates from wine estates on what mountain?

6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?

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

8 Which piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?

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

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

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

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

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

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; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.

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