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How much of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into this collection of queries to discover.

The Questions

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

2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?

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

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from vineyards on what mountain?

6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?

7 Whose report resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?

8 Which chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?

Common Connections

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

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

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

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

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

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

15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?

In deep water by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

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; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.

11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in 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: Ian 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 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.