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What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into this set of questions to discover.

The Queries

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

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

3 What initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?

5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from wine estates on what mountain?

6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?

7 Which person's findings led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?

8 Which piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?

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

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

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

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

15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?

In deep water by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

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

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

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Title spies in novels: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Graham 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.