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How much of general knowledge do you possess? Dive into this collection of queries to discover.

The Queries

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

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

3 What initially met at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from wine estates on which mountain?

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

7 Which person's report resulted in the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?

8 Which piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?

Common Connections

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?

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

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

13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus; javelin; long jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?

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

15 Cate Blanchett; Penélope Cruz; Keaton performer; Sorvino actress; Dianne Wiest?

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

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

11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; codename for SAS operation.

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

14 Spy titles in books: Ian 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: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.