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

The Questions

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

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

3 What initially met at Þingvellir 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 which mountain?

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

7 Whose findings resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?

8 What piece in chess was originally known as the counsellor?

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus; javelin throw; broad jump; pankration; grappling?

14 Agent 007; Leamas character; Pyle figure; Adolf Verloc?

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

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Title spies in novels: Ian 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.