Weekend Trivia Challenge: Put Your Smarts to the Test

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

The Questions

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

2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?

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

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Tears of Christ wine comes from wine estates on what mountain?

6 Which British television comedy has been running for 19 years?

7 Whose report resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?

8 Which chess piece was initially called the counsellor?

What Links

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

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

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

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

13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?

14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?

15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?

In deep water by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

10 River Douro: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches 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; Greene’s The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

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