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

The Questions

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

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

6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?

7 Whose report led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?

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

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?

11 Son 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?

13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?

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

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

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

9 London lanes.

10 River Douro: 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 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; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

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