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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 had a close brush with death by an ostrich back in 1981?

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

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

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

5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from vineyards on what mountain?

6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?

7 Which person's findings led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?

8 Which chess piece was initially called the counsellor?

Common Connections

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

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

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; grappling?

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

15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

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

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

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Spy titles in books: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.

15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.