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What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Plunge into this set of questions to find out.

The Queries

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

2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?

3 What initially met at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?

5 Tears of Christ wine comes from wine estates on which mountain?

6 Which British television comedy has been running for 19 years?

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

8 What chess piece was initially called the counsellor?

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?

11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?

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

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

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

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 Waste-to-energy.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 Lanes in London.

10 Douro River: starts in Spain; flows through in 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 Spy titles in books: Ian 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: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.