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

The Queries

1 Which icon of country music had a close brush with death by an ostrich in 1981?

2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?

3 Which initially met at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?

4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?

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

6 What British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?

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

8 Which piece in chess was initially called the vizier?

Common Connections

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?

11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?

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

13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?

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

15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Solutions

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 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; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.

11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Spy titles in books: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

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