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What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following set of questions to find out.

The Queries

1 Which country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?

2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?

3 Which first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from wine estates on what mountain?

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

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

8 Which chess piece was originally known as the vizier?

Common Connections

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?

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

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

In deep water by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

10 Douro River: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.

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

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Spy titles in books: 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; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.