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How much of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this set of questions to discover.

The Queries

1 Which icon of country music had a close brush with death 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 Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?

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

5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from vineyards on what mountain?

6 Which British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?

7 Whose findings led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?

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

Common Connections

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

9 London lanes.

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

11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Spy titles in books: Ian 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: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.