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How much of general knowledge are you holding? Plunge into this set of questions to find out.

The Queries

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

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

3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Tears of Christ vino originates from vineyards on which mountain?

6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?

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

8 What chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Porto?

11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?

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

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

14 James Bond; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?

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

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 Lanes in London.

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

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

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

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; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.

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