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What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into this collection of queries to discover.

The Questions

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

2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?

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

4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?

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

6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for 19 years?

7 Whose findings led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?

8 Which piece in chess was initially called the vizier?

Common Connections

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

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

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

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

13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?

14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?

15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

10 Douro River: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.

11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from 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; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.

15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.