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

The Questions

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

2 Dame Sarah Mullally was named as the one hundred and sixth what?

3 Which first convened at Thingvellir in Iceland during the year 930?

4 Within the energy sector, what is EfW?

5 Tears of Christ wine originates from vineyards on which mountain?

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

7 Whose report resulted in the implementation of all-seater stadiums in the UK?

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

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Porto?

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot racing; discus; javelin; broad jump; pankration; wrestling?

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

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

In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?

The Solutions

1 The Man in Black.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

9 Lanes in London.

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

11 Nimrod: from Genesis; in Elgar's Enigma Variations; Nimrod aircraft; 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; Conrad’s The Secret Agent.

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