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What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into this set of questions to find out.

The Questions

1 Which icon of country music had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack back in 1981?

2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?

3 Which initially met at Thingvellir in the nation of 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 Which British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?

7 Which person's findings resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK?

8 Which chess piece was initially called the vizier?

Common Connections

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

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

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

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

13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?

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

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

In deep water by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

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

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

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