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What amount of general knowledge do you possess? Plunge into the following collection of queries to discover.

The Questions

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

2 Sarah Mullally has been appointed as the 106th what?

3 Which first convened at Þingvellir in Iceland in 930?

4 In the power industry, what is EfW?

5 Lacryma Christi wine originates from wine estates on which mountain?

6 Which BBC sitcom has been airing for 19 years?

7 Which person's findings led to the adoption of stadiums with only seats in the UK?

8 What piece in chess was initially called the counsellor?

What Links

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

10 Sierra de Urbión; Tordesillas; Zamora city; Oporto?

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

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

13 Pugilism; chariot contests; discus throw; javelin; long jump; ancient combat sport; wrestling?

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

15 Blanchett actress; Penélope Cruz; Diane Keaton; Sorvino actress; Wiest thespian?

In deep water over the Tordesillas clue?

The Solutions

1 Johnny Cash.

2 Canterbury Archbishop.

3 Althing (Icelandic assembly).

4 Energy from waste.

5 Mount Vesuvius.

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

7 Taylor Report (1990).

8 The queen piece.

9 Lanes in London.

10 River Douro: 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 Bristol Channel islands.

13 Ancient Olympic events.

14 Title spies in novels: Fleming’s The Spy Who Loved Me; John 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; movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona; classic Annie Hall; feature Mighty Aphrodite; Hannah and Her Sisters, Bullets Over Broadway.