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How much of general knowledge are you holding? Plunge into the following collection of queries to discover.

The Questions

1 Which icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich back in 1981?

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

3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from vineyards on what mountain?

6 What British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?

7 Whose findings resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?

8 Which chess piece was initially called the vizier?

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; wrestling?

14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?

15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?

In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

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

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Title spies in novels: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.