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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 icon of country music had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack in 1981?

2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?

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

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

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

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

7 Which person's findings led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?

8 Which chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?

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

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

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

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 (UK's second longest-running comedy)

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 Lanes in London.

10 Douro River: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.

11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; 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; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.