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What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into the following collection of queries to discover.

The Queries

1 What icon of country music was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?

2 Dame 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 wine comes from vineyards on which mountain?

6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?

7 Whose report resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?

8 What piece in chess was initially called the vizier?

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; broad jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?

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

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

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

10 Douro River: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.

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

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Spy titles in books: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; 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: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.