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

The Questions

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

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

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

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Lacryma Christi wine comes from wine estates on which mountain?

6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for 19 years?

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

8 Which chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?

What Links

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

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 Taylor Report (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 Lanes in London.

10 Douro River: rises in Spain; travels through Spain; empties into the Atlantic.

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

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