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What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into this collection of queries to discover.

The Queries

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

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

3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

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

6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?

7 Which person's findings led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?

8 Which chess piece was initially called the counsellor?

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?

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

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

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

14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?

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

In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

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 River Douro: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

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; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.