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How much of general knowledge do you possess? Plunge into the following set of questions to discover.

The Questions

1 Which country music legend was nearly killed from an ostrich attack in 1981?

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

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

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

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

6 What BBC sitcom has been airing for nineteen years?

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

8 Which chess piece was initially called the counsellor?

What Links

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

10 Urbión Range; Tordesillas town; Zamora; Oporto?

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

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

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

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

15 Cate Blanchett; Cruz star; Keaton performer; Mira Sorvino; Wiest thespian?

Feeling stumped over the Tordesillas clue?

The Answers

1 The Man in Black.

2 Archbishop of Canterbury.

3 Althing (parliament).

4 Waste-to-energy.

5 Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 Queen.

9 London lanes.

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

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

12 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

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