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

The Queries

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

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

3 What initially met at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?

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

5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from vineyards on what mountain?

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

7 Whose findings led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?

8 What piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Porto?

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

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

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

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

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

In deep water by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

10 Douro River: starts in Spain; flows through in Spain; reaches Atlantic.

11 Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; 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; John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.

15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: film Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.