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

The Questions

1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?

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

3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

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

6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for 19 years?

7 Whose report led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK?

8 Which piece in chess was initially called the vizier?

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?

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

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

13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; pankration; grappling?

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

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

In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

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

11 Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Title spies in novels: Ian 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 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.