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

The Questions

1 Which icon of country music had a close brush with death from an ostrich attack back in 1981?

2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?

3 What first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?

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

5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from wine estates on which mountain?

6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Oporto?

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

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

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

14 James Bond; Leamas character; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?

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

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

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 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

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

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

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Spy titles in books: 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; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.