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What amount of general knowledge do you possess? Plunge into the following set of questions to find out.

The Queries

1 What icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?

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

3 What initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?

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

5 Tears of Christ vino comes from vineyards on what mountain?

6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?

7 Which person's findings resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?

8 Which piece in chess was originally known as the counsellor?

Common Connections

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

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

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

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

13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; long jump; pankration; wrestling?

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

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

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 The Man in Black.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 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 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

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; 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.