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What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following collection of queries to discover.

The Queries

1 Which country music legend 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 Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

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

6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?

7 Which person's findings led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?

8 What chess piece was originally known as the vizier?

What Links

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

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

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?

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

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

In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

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

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Title spies in novels: 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; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.