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What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into the following set of questions to find out.

The Questions

1 What icon of country music was nearly killed by an ostrich in 1981?

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

3 What first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?

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

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

6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for 19 years?

7 Whose report led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?

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

What Links

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

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

11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; maritime patrol aircraft; siege at the Iranian embassy?

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

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

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

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

In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?

The Solutions

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

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 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

10 Douro River: starts in Spain; travels through Spain; reaches Atlantic.

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Spy titles in books: 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 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.