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What amount of general knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following collection of queries to find out.

The Questions

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

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

3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?

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

5 Tears of Christ vino originates from wine estates on what mountain?

6 What BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?

7 Which person's findings resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?

8 Which chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?

Common Connections

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?

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

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

13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?

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

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

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

9 London lanes.

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

11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Title spies in novels: 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; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.