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

The Queries

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

2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?

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

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

5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from vineyards on which mountain?

6 Which British television comedy has been airing for nineteen years?

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

8 Which chess piece was initially called the counsellor?

What Links

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

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

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

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

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

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

15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?

In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

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

11 The name Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; SAS operation codename.

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Spy titles in books: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; 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; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.