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How much of common knowledge are you holding? Dive into this set of questions to find out.

The Queries

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

2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?

3 What first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?

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

5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from vineyards on which mountain?

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

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

8 What piece in chess was originally known as the counsellor?

Common Connections

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?

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

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

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

14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?

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

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

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

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Title spies in novels: 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: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.