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

The Questions

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

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

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

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

5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from vineyards on what mountain?

6 What BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?

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

8 Which piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?

Common Connections

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?

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

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

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

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

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

In deep water by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

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

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

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Spy titles in books: 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 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.