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How much of general knowledge are you holding? Plunge into the following set of questions to find out.

The Queries

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

2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?

3 What initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

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

6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?

7 Which person's findings led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?

8 Which piece in chess was initially called the vizier?

What Links

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

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

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

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

13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; long jump; pankration; grappling?

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

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

In deep water by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 Lanes in London.

10 River Douro: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Spy titles in books: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.

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