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How much of general knowledge do you possess? Plunge into this collection of queries to find out.

The Queries

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

2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?

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

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

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

6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?

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

8 What piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?

Common Connections

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

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

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

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

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

14 James Bond; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Adolf Verloc?

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

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Vesuvius.

6 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: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Title spies in novels: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

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