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

The Questions

1 What country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?

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

3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from vineyards on which mountain?

6 What British television comedy has been running for 19 years?

7 Whose findings resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?

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

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?

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

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

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

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

15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 The Man in Black.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

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

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

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Title spies in novels: Ian 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: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.