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What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Plunge 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 in 1981?

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

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

4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?

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

6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?

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

8 What piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?

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

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

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

14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Verloc persona?

15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?

In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?

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 Taylor Report (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 Lanes in London.

10 River Douro: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.

11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

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; Greene’s The Quiet American; 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.