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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 from an ostrich attack back in 1981?

2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?

3 What first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

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

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

7 Which person's findings resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?

8 Which piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?

11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?

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

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

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

15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

6 The sitcom 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; empties into the Atlantic.

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

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Title spies in novels: 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 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.