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What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following collection of queries to discover.

The Questions

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

2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?

3 What initially met at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?

4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?

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

6 What British television comedy has been running for nineteen years?

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

8 Which piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?

What Links

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

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

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

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

13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus; javelin; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?

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

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

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

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

11 The name 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: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; John 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.