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

The Questions

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

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

3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from vineyards on which mountain?

6 Which BBC sitcom has been running for 19 years?

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

8 Which chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?

Common Connections

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

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

11 Offspring of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?

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

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

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

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

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Energy from waste.

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; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

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