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How much of common knowledge do you possess? Plunge into the following collection of queries to find out.

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 106th what?

3 What initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from vineyards on which mountain?

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

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

8 Which chess piece was initially called the vizier?

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?

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

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

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

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

15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 The Man in Black.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 Lanes in London.

10 River Douro: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.

11 Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

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; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.

15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.