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How much of general knowledge do you possess? Plunge into the following set of questions to discover.

The Questions

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

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

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

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

5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from vineyards on what mountain?

6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?

7 Whose report resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?

8 Which chess piece was initially called the vizier?

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Porto?

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

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

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

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

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

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 Lanes in London.

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