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What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following set of questions to discover.

The Questions

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

2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?

3 What first convened at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

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

6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?

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

8 What chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; pankration; grappling?

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

15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

10 River Douro: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Title spies in novels: 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 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.