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

The Questions

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 one hundred and sixth what?

3 What first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Tears of Christ vino originates from vineyards on which mountain?

6 Which British television comedy has been running for 19 years?

7 Which person's report led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?

8 What chess piece was originally known as the vizier?

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; grappling?

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

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

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

6 The sitcom 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; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Spy titles in books: 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; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.