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How much of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into the following set of questions to discover.

The Questions

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

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

3 What initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?

4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?

5 Tears of Christ vino comes from wine estates on which mountain?

6 Which British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?

7 Which person's report resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?

8 What piece in chess was originally known as the counsellor?

What Links

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?

11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?

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

13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; long jump; pankration; grappling?

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

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

In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 Lanes in London.

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

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

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