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

The Questions

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

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

3 What initially met at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?

4 In the power industry, 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 Which person's findings resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?

8 What chess piece was initially called the vizier?

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?

11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?

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

13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus; javelin; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?

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

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

In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 Queen.

9 London lanes.

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

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

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Title spies in novels: 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 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.