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

The Questions

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

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

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

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

5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from vineyards on which mountain?

6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?

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

8 Which piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?

Common Connections

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; pankration; grappling?

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

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

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 Queen.

9 London lanes.

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

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

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