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

The Queries

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

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

3 What first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland in 930?

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

5 Tears of Christ vino comes from wine estates on which mountain?

6 What British television comedy has been airing for 19 years?

7 Whose findings led to the implementation of stadiums with only seats in the UK?

8 Which chess piece was originally known as the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora; Oporto?

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus throw; javelin throw; broad jump; pankration; grappling?

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

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

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 Lanes in London.

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

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Spy titles in books: Ian Fleming's The Spy Who Loved Me; John le Carré's The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Graham Greene's The Quiet American; Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent.

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