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What amount of general knowledge are you holding? Dive into this set of questions to discover.

The Questions

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 one hundred and sixth what?

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

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

5 Lacryma Christi vino comes from wine estates on which mountain?

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

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

8 What piece in chess was originally known as the vizier?

Common Connections

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?

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

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

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

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

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

Feeling stumped by the Tordesillas question?

The Solutions

1 The Man in Black.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

6 The sitcom Not Going Out (UK's second longest-running comedy)

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 London lanes.

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

11 Nimrod: from Genesis; from Elgar’s Enigma Variations; Hawker Siddeley Nimrod; SAS operation codename.

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Events in the ancient Olympics.

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

15 Won acting Oscars in Woody Allen films: Blue Jasmine; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters and Bullets Over Broadway.