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What amount of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into the following set of questions to discover.

The Queries

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

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

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

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from vineyards on which mountain?

6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?

7 Which person's report led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?

8 What piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?

Common Connections

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

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

11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?

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

13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin; long jump; pankration; grappling?

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

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

In deep water by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

6 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; empties into the Atlantic.

11 Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.

12 Bristol Channel islands.

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; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

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