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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 back in 1981?

2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?

3 Which initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Tears of Christ wine comes from vineyards on which mountain?

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

7 Whose findings led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?

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

What Links

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?

11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?

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

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

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

15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?

In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?

The Solutions

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

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: 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 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Title spies in novels: 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: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.