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

The Questions

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

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

3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

5 Tears of Christ wine originates from wine estates on what mountain?

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

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

8 What chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?

Common Connections

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?

11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?

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

13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?

14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?

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

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Energy from waste.

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: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.

11 The name Nimrod: in Book of 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: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.

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