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How much of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into the following collection of queries to find out.

The Queries

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

2 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 Tears of Christ vino comes from vineyards on which mountain?

6 What British television comedy has been airing for 19 years?

7 Whose report led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the UK?

8 Which chess piece was initially called the vizier?

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?

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

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

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

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

15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 The Man in Black.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

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

11 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: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.