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What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Plunge into this set of questions to find out.

The Queries

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

2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?

3 What first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?

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

5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from vineyards on what mountain?

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

7 Whose report led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?

8 What chess piece was initially called the vizier?

Common Connections

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

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

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus; javelin throw; long jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?

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

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

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Solutions

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (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; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; codename for SAS operation.

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

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; Greene’s The Quiet American; Joseph 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.