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How much of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into this collection of queries to find out.

The Queries

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

2 Sarah Mullally was named as the 106th what?

3 Which initially met at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from vineyards on what mountain?

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

7 Which person's report resulted in the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the United Kingdom?

8 Which piece in chess was initially called the vizier?

Common Connections

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

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

11 Offspring of Cush; ninth variation in music; naval patrol plane; Iranian embassy siege?

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

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

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

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

In deep water by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Waste-to-energy.

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; flows through in Spain; empties into the Atlantic.

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

12 Islands in the Bristol Channel.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Title spies in novels: Ian 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 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: film Blue Jasmine; Vicky Cristina Barcelona; Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.