Saturday Trivia Challenge: Test Your Knowledge

What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into the following set of questions to discover.

The Questions

1 What icon of country music had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack back in 1981?

2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?

3 Which initially met at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

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

6 What BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?

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

8 Which chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?

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

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

13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; long jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?

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

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

In deep water by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Waste-to-energy.

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

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

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Title spies in novels: 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; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

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