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

The Queries

1 Which country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?

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

3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?

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

5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from vineyards on which mountain?

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

7 Whose findings led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK?

8 Which chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?

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

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

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

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

15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?

In deep water by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Waste-to-energy.

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; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.

11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.

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; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.

15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.