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

The Questions

1 Which country music legend was nearly killed by an ostrich back in 1981?

2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?

3 What initially met at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from vineyards on which mountain?

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

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

8 What chess piece was initially called the vizier?

Common Connections

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

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

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

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

13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus; javelin; broad jump; pankration; grappling?

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

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

In deep water by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

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

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Title spies in novels: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; 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: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.