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What amount of common knowledge are you holding? 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 in 1981?

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

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

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from wine estates on which mountain?

6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for 19 years?

7 Which person's report led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?

8 What chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?

Common Connections

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In deep water by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

9 London lanes.

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

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Title spies in novels: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

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