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What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into this set of questions to find out.

The Questions

1 Which icon of country music 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 What initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Tears of Christ vino originates from wine estates on what mountain?

6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?

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

8 What chess piece was initially called the counsellor?

Common Connections

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

9 London lanes.

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

11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Spy titles in books: 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: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.