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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 back in 1981?

2 Dame Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the one hundred and sixth what?

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

4 In the power industry, what does EfW stand for?

5 Lacryma Christi vino originates from vineyards on which mountain?

6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?

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

8 What chess piece was originally known as the vizier?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?

11 Son of Cush; ninth musical variation; naval patrol plane; siege at the Iranian embassy?

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

13 Boxing; chariot racing; discus; javelin throw; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?

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

15 Blanchett actress; Cruz star; Diane Keaton; Mira Sorvino; Dianne Wiest?

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Lord Justice Taylor (1990).

8 Queen.

9 London lanes.

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

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

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; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.