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What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this collection of queries to find out.

The Queries

1 What icon of country music had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack back in 1981?

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

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

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

5 Tears of Christ wine comes from wine estates on what mountain?

6 What BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?

7 Whose report resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?

8 What chess piece was originally known as the vizier?

Common Connections

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

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

11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?

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

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

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

15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; 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 Waste-to-energy.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

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

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Title spies in novels: 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 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.