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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 by an ostrich back in 1981?

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

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

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

5 Tears of Christ wine comes from vineyards on which mountain?

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

7 Whose findings resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?

8 What piece in chess was initially called the vizier?

Common Connections

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

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

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

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

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

14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?

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

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 Lanes in London.

10 River Douro: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the 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: Ian 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: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.