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What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Plunge into this collection of queries to discover.

The Questions

1 What country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack back in 1981?

2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?

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

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from vineyards on which mountain?

6 What BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?

7 Which person's report led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK?

8 Which chess piece was initially called the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?

11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?

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

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

14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?

15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

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

11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; in 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; 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 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.