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How much of general knowledge do you possess? Dive into the following collection of queries to find out.

The Queries

1 What country music legend had a close brush with death by an ostrich back in 1981?

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

3 What initially met at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?

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

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

6 What British television comedy has been running for 19 years?

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

8 Which chess piece was initially called the vizier?

What Links

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

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

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

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Title spies in novels: 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 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.