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How much of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into this set of questions to discover.

The Queries

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

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

3 What first convened at Thingvellir in the nation of Iceland during the year 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what does EfW stand for?

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

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

7 Whose report led to the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?

8 What piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?

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

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

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

14 Agent 007; Alec Leamas; Alden Pyle; Verloc persona?

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

In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 Queen.

9 London lanes.

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

11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; 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; 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: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.