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How much of common knowledge do you possess? Dive into this set of questions to find out.

The Queries

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

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

3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

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

6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?

7 Whose report resulted in the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?

8 What chess piece was initially called the vizier?

Common Connections

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?

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

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

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

14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?

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

In deep water by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 The Man in Black.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 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; reaches Atlantic.

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Spy titles in books: 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 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.