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

The Questions

1 Which country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack back in 1981?

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

3 What initially met at Þingvellir in the nation of Iceland in 930?

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

5 Tears of Christ wine originates from wine estates on what mountain?

6 What BBC sitcom 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 What chess piece was originally known as the counsellor?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora city; Oporto?

11 Son of Cush; ninth variation in music; maritime patrol aircraft; Iranian embassy siege?

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

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

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

15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 The Man in Black.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

6 Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

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

11 Nimrod: from 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; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

15 Oscar wins in Woody Allen movies: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.