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

The Queries

1 What country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?

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

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

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

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

6 Which British television comedy has been airing for 19 years?

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

8 What chess piece was originally known as the vizier?

What Links

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

9 London lanes.

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

11 Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

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

15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.