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How much of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this collection of queries to find out.

The Questions

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

2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?

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

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

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

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

7 Which person's report resulted in the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the UK?

8 What chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?

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

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

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

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

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

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

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 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 Lanes in London.

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

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

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 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.