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What amount of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this set of questions to discover.

The Questions

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

2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?

3 Which initially met at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?

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

5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from vineyards on which mountain?

6 What BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?

7 Which person's report resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?

8 Which chess piece was initially called the counsellor?

Common Connections

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

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

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

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

13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin; long jump; pankration; grappling?

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

15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

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

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Title spies in novels: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.