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How much of general knowledge are you holding? Plunge into this set of questions to discover.

The Questions

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

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

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

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

5 Tears of Christ vino comes from vineyards on which mountain?

6 What BBC sitcom has been running for nineteen years?

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

8 What piece in chess was initially called the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?

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

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

13 Boxing; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; ancient combat sport; grappling?

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

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

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

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 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

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

11 Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; 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; Le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Greene’s The Quiet American; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.

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