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What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Plunge into this set of questions to discover.

The Questions

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

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

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

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from vineyards on which mountain?

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

7 Whose findings led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?

8 What piece in chess was initially called the vizier?

Common Connections

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (parliament).

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; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.

11 Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

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; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.