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

The Questions

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

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

3 What first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

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

6 Which British television comedy has been airing 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 counsellor?

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?

11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?

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

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

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

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

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

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

11 Nimrod: from 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; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.