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

The Queries

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

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

3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?

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

5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from wine estates on which mountain?

6 Which 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 piece in chess was initially called the vizier?

Common Connections

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

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

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?

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

15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?

In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

9 London lanes.

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

11 The name 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: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Joseph 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.