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

The Questions

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

2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?

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

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

5 Tears of Christ wine originates from vineyards on what mountain?

6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?

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

8 Which chess piece was originally known as the vizier?

Common Connections

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

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

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus; javelin throw; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?

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

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

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Mount 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 Douro River: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.

11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Spy titles in books: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Graham 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; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.