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

The Questions

1 What icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich 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 is EfW?

5 Tears of Christ vino comes from vineyards on which mountain?

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

7 Whose report led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK?

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

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; long jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?

14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?

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

In deep water by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 Queen.

9 London lanes.

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

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

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; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.

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