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

The Queries

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

2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?

3 What initially met at Þingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?

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

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

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

7 Whose report led to the adoption of all-seater stadiums in the United Kingdom?

8 Which piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?

Common Connections

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In deep water by the Tordesillas question?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

10 Douro River: rises in Spain; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.

11 The name Nimrod: in Book of Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

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

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