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How much of common knowledge are you holding? Plunge into the following collection of queries to discover.

The Questions

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

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

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

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

5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from vineyards on which mountain?

6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?

7 Which person's report led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?

8 Which piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?

11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?

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

13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus; javelin; long jump; pankration; wrestling?

14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?

15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; 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 (second longest-running UK sitcom)

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

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

11 Nimrod: from 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: Ian 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 and Bullets Over Broadway.