"1 Johnny Cash. 2 Archbishop of Canterbury. 3 Althing (parliament). 4 Energy from waste. 5 Vesuvius. 6 Not Going Out (second longest-running UK sitcom). 7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990). 8 Queen. 9 London lanes. 10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic. 11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation."
"12 Islands in the Bristol Channel. 13 Events in the ancient Olympics. 14 Title spies in novels: Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carre's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene's The Quiet American; Conrad's The Secret Agent. 15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway."
Johnny Cash was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981. Sarah Mullally has been named Archbishop of Canterbury. The Althing first met at Thingvellir in 930. EfW denotes energy from waste. Lacryma Christi wine comes from vineyards on Mount Vesuvius. Not Going Out has run for 19 years and is the second longest-running UK sitcom. Lord Justice Taylor's 1990 report led to all-seater stadiums. The chess queen was originally the vizier. Brick, Chancery, Hangar, Leather, Park and Pudding are London lanes. The Douro rises in Spain, flows through Spain and Portugal to the Atlantic. Nimrod appears in Genesis, Elgar's Enigma Variations, as the Hawker Siddeley maritime patrol aircraft, and as an SAS operation codename.
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